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第8章 TWO SUNSETS

In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, with all that wild unrest To plunge into the great world's strife That fills young hearts with mad desire, He saw a sunset. Red and gold The burning billows surged and rolled, And upward tossed their caps of fire.

He looked. And as he looked, the sight Sent from his soul through breast and brain Such intense joy, it hurt like pain.

His heart seemed bursting with delight.

So near the Unknown seemed, so close He might have grasped it with his hands He felt his inmost soul expand, As sunlight will expand a rose One day he heard a singing strain -A human voice, in bird-like trills.

He paused, and little rapture-rills Went trickling downward through each vein.

And in his heart the whole day long, As in a temple veiled and dim, He kept and bore about with him The beauty of that singer's song.

And then? But why relate what then?

His smouldering heart flamed into fire -

He had his one supreme desire, And plunged into the world of men.

For years queen Folly held her sway.

With pleasures of the grosser kind She fed his flesh and drugged his mind, Till, shamed, he sated, turned away.

He sought his boyhood's home.

That hour Triumphant should have been, in sooth, Since he went forth, an unknown youth, And came back crowned with wealth and power.

The clouds made day a gorgeous bed;

He saw the splendour of the sky With unmoved heart and stolid eye;He only knew the West was red.

Then suddenly a fresh young voice Rose, bird-like, from some hidden place, He did not even turn his face -It struck him simply as a noise.

He trod the old paths up and down.

Their rich-hued leaves by Fall winds whirled -How dull they were--how dull the world -

Dull even in the pulsing town.

O! worst of punishments, that brings A blunting of all finer sense, A loss of feelings keen, intense, And dulls us to the higher things.

O! penalty most dire, most sure, Swift following after gross delights, That we no more see beauteous sights, Or hear as hear the good and pure.

O! shape more hideous and more dread Than Vengeance takes in creed-taught minds, This certain doom that blunts and blinds, And strikes the holiest feelings dead.

UNREST

In the youth of the year, when the birds were building, When the green was showing on tree and hedge, And the tenderest light of all lights was gilding The world from zenith to outermost edge, My soul grew sad and longingly lonely!

I sighed for the season of sun and rose, And I said, "In the Summer and that time only Lies sweet contentment and blest repose."With bee and bird for her maids of honour Came Princess Summer in robes of green.

And the King of day smiled down upon her And wooed her, and won her, and made her queen.

Fruit of their union and true love's pledges, Beautiful roses bloomed day by day, And rambled in gardens and hid in hedges Like royal children in sportive play.

My restless soul for a little season Revelled in rapture of glow and bloom, And then, like a subject who harbours treason, Grew full of rebellion and grey with gloom.

And I said, "I am sick of the summer's blisses, Of warmth and beauty, and nothing more.

The full fruition my sad soul misses That beauteous Fall-time holds in store!"But now when the colours are almost blinding, Burning and blending on bush and tree, And the rarest fruits are mine for the finding, And the year is ripe as a year can be, My soul complains in the same old fashion;Crying aloud in my troubled breast Is the same old longing, the same old passion.

O where is the treasure which men call rest?

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