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venus and adonis-第7部分
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Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend;
So did the merciless and pitchy night
Fold in the object that did feed her sight。
Whereat amazed as one that unaware
Hath dropped a precious jewel in the flood;
Or 'stonished as night…wand'rers often are;
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood;
Even so confounded in the dark she lay;
Having lost the fair discovery of her way。
And now she beats her heart; whereat it groans;
That all the neighbour caves; as seeming troubled;
Make verbal repetition of her moans;
Passion on passion deeply is redoubled:
'Ay me!' she cries; and twenty times; 'Woe; woe!'
And twenty echoes twenty times cry so。
She; marking them; begins a wailing note;
And sings extemporally a woeful ditty;
How love makes young men thrall; and old men dote;
How love is wise in folly; foolish witty:
Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe;
And still the choir of echoes answer so。
Her song was tedious; and outwore the night;
For lovers' hours are long; though seeming short;
If pleased themselves; others; they think; delight
In such…like circumstance; with such…like sport。
Their copious stories; oftentimes begun;
End without audience; and are never done。
For who hath she to spend the night withal
But idle sounds resembling parasites;
Like shrill…tongued tapsters answering every call;
Soothing the humour of fantastic wits?
She says ''Tis so'; they answer all ''Tis so';
And would say after her; if she said 'No'。
Lo; here the gentle lark; weary of rest;
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high;
And wakes the morning; from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold
That cedar…tops and hills seem burnished gold。
Venus salutes him with this fair good…morrow:
'O thou clear god; and patron of all light;
From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
The beauteous influence that makes him bright;
There lives a son that sucked an earthly mother
May lend thee light; as thou dost lend to other。'
This said; she hasteth to a myrtle grove;
Musing the morning is so much o'erworn;
And yet she hears no tidings of her love;
She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn。
Anon she hears them chant it lustily;
And all in haste she coasteth to the cry。
And as she runs; the bushes in the way
Some catch her by the neck; some kiss her face;
Some twind about her thigh to make her stay;
She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace;
Like a milch doe; whose swelling dugs do ache;
Hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake。
By this she hears the hounds are at a bay;
Whereat she starts; like one that spies an adder
Wreathed up in fatal folds just in his way;
The fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder;
Even so the timorous yelping of the hounds
Appals her senses and her spirit confounds。
For now she knows it is no gentle chase;
But the blunt boar; rough bear; or lion proud;
Because the cry remaineth in one place;
Where fearfully the dogs exclaim aloud。
Finding their enemy to be so curst;
They all strain court'sy who shall cope him first。
This dismal cry rings sadly in her car;
Through which it enters to surprise her heart;
Who; overcome by doubt and bloodless fear;
With cold…pale weakness numbs each feeling part;
Like soldiers; when their captain once doth yield;
They basely fly and dare not stay the field。
Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy;
Till; cheering up her senses all dismayed;
She tells them 'tis a causeless fantasy;
And childish error; that they are afraid;
Bids them leave quaking; bids them fear no more;
And with that word she spied the hunted boar;
Whose frothy mouth; bepainted all with red;
Like milk and blood being mingled both together;
A second fear through all her sinews spread;
Which madly hurries her she knows not whither:
This way she runs; and now she will no further;
But back retires to rate the boar for murther。
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways;
She treads the path that she untreads again;
Her more than haste is mated with delays;
Like the proceedings of a drunken brain;
Full of respects; yet nought at all respecting;
In hand with all things; nought at all effecting。
Here kennelled in a brake she finds a hound;
And asks the weary caitiff for his master;
And there another licking of his wound;
'Gainst venomed sores the only sovereign plaster;
And here she meets another sadly scowling;
To whom she speaks; and he replies with howling。
When he hath ceased his ill…resounding noise;
Another flap…mouthed mourner; black and grim;
Against the welkin volleys out his voice;
Another and another answer him;
Clapping their proud tails to the ground below;
Shaking their scratched ears; bleeding as they go。
Look how the world's poor people are amazed
At apparitions; signs and prodigies;
Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed;
Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;
So she at these sad signs draws up her breath;
And; sighing it again; exclaims on Death。
'Hard…favoured tyrant; ugly; meagre; lean;
Hateful divorce of love'… thus chides she Death…
'Grim…grinning ghost; earth's worm; what dost thou mean
To stifle beauty and to steal his breath
Who when he lived; his breath and beauty set
Gloss on the rose; smell to the violet?
'If he be dead… O no; it cannot be;
Seeing his beauty; thou shouldst strike at it…
O yes; it may; thou hast no eyes to see;
But hatefully at random dost thou hit。
Thy mark is feeble age; but thy false dart
Mistakes that aim; and cleaves an infant's heart。
'Hadst thou but bid beware; then he had spoke;
And; hearing him; thy power had lost his power。
The Destinies will curse thee for this stroke;
They bid thee crop a weed; thou pluck'st a flower。
Love's golden arrow at him should have fled;
And not Death's ebon dart; to strike him dead。
'Dost thou drink tears; that thou provokest such weeping?
What may a heavy groan advantage thee?
Why hast thou cast into eternal sleeping
Those eyes that taught all other eyes to see?
Now Nature cares not for thy mortal vigour;
Since her best work is ruined with thy rigour。'
Here overcome as one full of despair;
She vailed her eyelids; who; like sluices; stopped
The crystal tide that from her two cheeks fair
In the sweet channel of her bosom dropped;
But through the flood…gates breaks the silver rain;
And with his strong course opens them again。
O; how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow!
Her eye seen in the tears; tears in her eye;
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