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an anthology of australian verse-第31部分

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 Nor lift my head for your seeking hand。



Yet sometimes still; and in spite of all;

 I wistful look at the fastened door;

And wait again for the swift footfall;

 And the gay young voice as in hours of yore。

It still seems strange to be here alone;

 With the rising sob of the wind without;

The sound takes a deep; insisting tone;

 Where the trees are swinging their arms about。



Its moaning reaches the sheltered room;

 And thrills my heart with a sense of pain;

I walk to the window; and pierce the gloom;

 With a yearning look that is all in vain。

You are out in a night of depths that hold

 No promise of dawning for you and me;

And only a ghost from the life of old

 Has come from the world of memory!



You are out evermore!  God wills it so!

 But ah! my spirit is yearning yet!

As I kneel alone by the red fire…glow;

 My eyes grow dim with the old regret。

O when shall the aching throb grow still;

 The warm love…life turn cold at the core!

Must I be watching; against my will;

 For your banished face in the opening door?



It may be; dear; when the sequel's told

 Of the story; read to its bitter close;

When the inner meanings of life unfold;

 And the under…side of our being shows 

It may be then; in that truer light;

 When all our knowledge has larger grown;

I may understand why you stray to…night;

 And I am left; with the past; alone。









Agnes L。 Storrie。







  Twenty Gallons of Sleep





Measure me out from the fathomless tun

 That somewhere or other you keep

In your vasty cellars; O wealthy one;

 Twenty gallons of sleep。



Twenty gallons of balmy sleep;

 Dreamless; and deep; and mild;

Of the excellent brand you used to keep

 When I was a little child。



I've tasted of all your vaunted stock;

 Your clarets and ports of Spain;

The liquid gold of your famous hock;

 And your matchless dry champagne。



Of your rich muscats and your sherries fine;

 I've drunk both well and deep;

Then; measure me out; O merchant mine;

 Twenty gallons of sleep。



Twenty gallons of slumber soft

 Of the innocent; baby kind;

When the angels flutter their wings aloft

 And the pillow with down is lined;



I have drawn the corks; and drained the lees

 Of every vintage pressed;

If I've felt the sting of my honey bees

 I've taken it with the rest。



I have lived my life; and I'll not repine;

 As I sowed I was bound to reap;

Then; measure me out; O merchant mine;

 Twenty gallons of sleep。







  A Confession





You did not know;  how could you; dear; 

How much you stood for?  Life in you

Retained its touch of Eden dew;

And ever through the droughtiest year

My soul could bring her flagon here

And fill it to the brim with clear

   Deep draughts of purity:

And time could never quench the flame

Of youth that lit me through your eyes;

And cozened winter from my skies

Through all the years that went and came。

You did not know I used your name

To conjure by; and still the same

   I found its potency。

You did not know that; as a phial

May garner close through dust and gloom

The essence of a rich perfume;

Romance was garnered in your smile

And touched my thoughts with beauty; while

The poor world; wise with bitter guile;

   Outlived its chivalry。

You did not know  our lives were laid

So far apart  that thus I drew

The sunshine of my days from you;

That by your joy my own was weighed

That thus my debts your sweetness paid;

And of my heart's deep silence made

   A lovely melody。









Martha M。 Simpson。







  To an Old Grammar





Oh; mighty conjuror; you raise

 The ghost of my lost youth 

The happy; golden…tinted days

When earth her treasure…trove displays;

 And everything is truth。



Your compeers may be sage and dry;

 But in your page appears

A very fairyland; where I

Played 'neath a changeful Irish sky 

 A sky of smiles and tears。



Dear native land! this little book

 Brings back the varied charm

Of emerald hill and flashing brook;

Deep mountain glen and woodland nook;

 And homely sheltered farm。



I see the hayrick where I sat

 In golden autumn days;

And conned thy page; and wondered what

Could be the use; excepting that

 It gained the master's praise。



I conjugate thy verbs again

 Beside the winter's fire;

And; as the solemn clock strikes ten;

I lay thee on the shelf; and then

 To dreams of thee retire。



Thy Saxon roots reveal to me

 A silent; empty school;

And one poor prisoner who could see;

As if to increase her misery;

 Her mates released from rule;



Rushing to catch the rounder ball;

 Or circling in the ring。

Those merry groups!  I see them all;

And even now I can recall

 The songs they used to sing。



Thy syntax conjures forth a morn

 Of spring; when blossoms rare

Conspired the solemn earth to adorn;

And spread themselves on bank and thorn;

 And perfumed all the air。



The dewdrops lent their aid and threw

 Their gems with lavish hand

On every flower of brilliant hue;

On every blade of grass that grew

 In that enchanted land。



The lark her warbling music lent;

 To give an added charm;

And sleek…haired kine; in deep content;

Forth from their milking slowly went

 Towards the homestead farm。



And here thy page on logic shows

 A troop of merry girls;

A meadow smooth where clover grows;

And lanes where scented hawthorn blows;

 And woodbine twines and curls。



And; turning o'er thy leaves; I find

 Of many a friend the trace;

Forgotten scenes rush to my mind;

And some whom memory left behind

 Now stare me in the face。



     。    。    。    。    。



Ah; happy days! when hope was high;

 And faith was calm and deep!

When all was real and God was nigh;

And heaven was 〃just beyond the sky〃;

 And angels watched my sleep。



Your dreams are gone; and here instead

 Fair science reigns alone;

And; when I come to her for bread;

She smiles and bows her stately head

 And offers me  a stone。









William Gay。







  Primroses





They shine upon my table there;

 A constellation mimic sweet;

No stars in Heaven could shine more fair;

 Nor Earth has beauty more complete;

And on my table there they shine;

And speak to me of things Divine。



In Heaven at first they grew; and when

 God could no fairer make them; He

Did plant them by the ways of men

 For all the pure in heart to see;

That each might shine upon its stem

And be a light from Him to them。



They speak of things above my verse;

 Of thoughts no earthly language knows;

That loftiest Bard could ne'er rehearse;

 Nor holiest prophet e'er disclose;

Which God Himself no other way

Than by a Primrose could convey。







  To M。



      (With some Verses)





If in the summer of thy bright regard

 For one brief season these poor Rhymes sha
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