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 Song of the Son

  by Jean Toomer

   Pour O pour that parting soul in song,

   O pour it in the sawdust glow of night,

   Into the velvet pine-smoke air to-night,

   And let the valley carry it along.

   And let the valley carry it along.

   O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,

   So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,

   Now just before an epoch's sun declines

   Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee,

   Thy son, I have in time returned to thee.

   In time, for though the sun is setting on

   A song-lit race of slaves, it has not set;

   Though late, O soil, it is not too late yet

   To catch thy plaintive soul, leaving, soon gone,

   Leaving, to catch thy plaintive soul soon gone.

   O Negro slaves, dark purple ripened plums,

   Squeezed, and bursting in the pine-wood air,

   Passing before they stripped the old tree bare

   One plum was saved for me, one seed becomes

   An everlasting song, a singing tree,

   Caroling softly souls of slavery,

   What they were, and what they are to me,

   Caroling softly souls of slavery.



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生词表:
  • parting [´pɑ:tiŋ] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.&n.分离(的) 四级词汇
  • setting [´setiŋ] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.安装;排字;布景 四级词汇
  • plaintive [´pleintiv] 移动到这儿单词发声 a.表示哀怨(悲痛) 六级词汇


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