Past the world of woe and bliss;

Sharing still its bliss and woe;
Harnessed to its hungers, no.

On the throne Success usurps,
You shall seat the joy you feel

Where a race of water chirps,
Twisting hues of flourished steel:

Or where light is caught in hoop
Up a clearing's leafy rise,

Where the crossing deerherds troop
Classic splendours, knightly dyes.

Or, where old-eyed oxen chew
Speculation with the cud,

Read their pool of vision through,
Back to hours when mind was mud;

Nigh the knot, which did untwine
Timelessly to drowsy suns;

Seeing Earth a slimy spine,
Heaven a space for winging tons.

Farther, deeper, may you read,
Have you sight for things afield,

Where peeps she, the Nurse of seed,
Cloaked, but in the peep revealed;

Showing a kind face and sweet:
Look you with the soul you see't.

Glory narrowing to grace,
Grace to glory magnified,

Following that will you embrace
Close in arms or aery wide.

Banished is the white Foam-born
Not from here, nor under ban

Phoebus lyrist, Phoebe's horn,
Pipings of the reedy Pan.

Loved of Earth of old they were,
Loving did interpret her;

And the sterner worship bars
None whom Song has made her stars.

You have seen the huntress moon
Radiantly facing dawn,

Dusky meads between them strewn
Glimmering like downy awn:

Argent Westward glows the hunt,
East the blush about to climb;

One another fair they front,
Transient, yet outshine the time;

Even as dewlight off the rose
In the mind a jewel sows.

Thus opposing grandeurs live
Here if Beauty be their dower:

Doth she of her spirit give,
Fleetingness will spare her flower.

This is in the tune we play,
Which no spring of strength would quell;

In subduing does not slay;
Guides the channel, guards the well:

Tempered holds the young blood-heat,
Yet through measured grave accord,

Hears the heart of wildness beat
Like a centaur's hoof on sward.

Drink the sense the notes infuse,
You a larger self will find:

Sweetest fellowship ensues
With the creatures of your kind.

Ay, and Love, if Love it be
Flaming over I and ME,

Love meet they who do not shove
Cravings in the van of Love.

Courtly dames are here to woo,
Knowing love if it be true.

Reverence the blossom-shoot
Fervently, they are the fruit.

Mark them stepping, hear them talk,
Goddess, is no myth inane,

You will say of those who walk
In the woods of Westermain.

Waters that from throat and thigh
Dart the sun his arrows back;

Leaves that on a woodland sigh
Chat of secret things no lack;

Shadowy branch-leaves, waters clear,
Bare or veiled they move sincere;

Not by slavish terrors tripped
Being anew in nature dipped,

Growths of what they step on, these;
With the roots the grace of trees.

Casket-breasts they give, nor hide,
For a tyrant's flattered pride,

Mind, which nourished not by light,
Lurks the shuffling trickster sprite:

Whereof are strange tales to tell;
Some in blood writ, tombed in bell.

Here the ancient battle ends,
Joining two astonished friends,

Who the kiss can give and take
With more warmth than in that world

Where the tiger claws the snake,
Snake her tiger clasps infurled,

And the issue of their fight
People lands in snarling plight.

Here her splendid beast she leads
Silken-leashed and decked with weeds

Wild as he, but breathing faint
Sweetness of unfelt constraint.

Love, the great volcano, flings
Fires of lower Earth to sky;

Love, the sole permitted, sings
Sovereignly of ME and I.

Bowers he has of sacred shade,
Spaces of superb parade,

Voiceful . . . But bring you a note
Wrangling, howsoe'er remote,

Discords out of discord spin
Round and round derisive din:

Sudden will a pallor pant
Chill at screeches miscreant;

Owls or spectres, thick they flee;
Nightmare upon horror broods;

Hooded laughter, monkish glee,
Gaps the vital air.

Enter these enchanted woods
You who dare.

IV
You must love the light so well

That no darkness will seem fell.
Love it so you could accost

Fellowly a livid ghost.
Whish! the phantom wisps away,

Owns him smoke to cocks of day.
In your breast the light must burn

Fed of you, like corn in quern
Ever plumping while the wheel

Speeds the mill and drains the meal.
Light to light sees little strange,

Only features heavenly new;
Then you touch the nerve of Change,

Then of Earth you have the clue;
Then her two-sexed meanings melt

Through you, wed the thought and felt.
Sameness locks no scurfy pond

Here for Custom, crazy-fond:
Change is on the wing to bud

Rose in brain from rose in blood.
Wisdom throbbing shall you see

Central in complexity;
From her pasture 'mid the beasts

Rise to her ethereal feasts,
Not, though lightnings track your wit

Starward, scorning them you quit:
For be sure the bravest wing

Preens it in our common spring,
Thence along the vault to soar,

You with others, gathering more,
Glad of more, till you reject

Your proud title of elect,
Perilous even here while few

Roam the archedgreenwood with you.
Heed that snare.

Muffled by his cavern-cowl
Squats the scaly Dragon-fowl,

Who was lord ere light you drank,
And lest blood of knightly rank

Stream, let not your fair princess
Stray: he holds the leagues in stress,

Watches keenly there.
Oft has he been riven; slain

Is no force in Westermain.
Wait, and we shall forge him curbs,

Put his fangs to uses, tame,
Teach him, quick as cunning herbs,

How to cure him sick and lame.
Much restricted, much enringed,

Much he frets, the hooked and winged,
Never known to spare.

'Tis enough: the name of Sage
Hits no thing in nature, nought;

Man the least, save when grave Age
From yon Dragon guards his thought.

Eye him when you hearken dumb
To what words from Wisdom come.

When she says how few are by
Listening to her, eye his eye.

Self, his name declare.
Him shall Change, transforming late,

Wonderously renovate.
Hug himself the creature may:

What he hugs is loathed decay.
Crying, slip thy scales, and slough!

Change will strip his armour off;
Make of him who was all maw,

Inly only thrilling-shrewd,
Such a servant as none saw

Through his days of dragonhood.
Days when growling o'er his bone,

Sharpened he for mine and thine;
Sensitive within alone;

Scaly as the bark of pine.
Change, the strongest son of Life,

Has the Spirit here to wife.
Lo, their young of vivid breed,

Bear the lights that onward speed,
Threading thickets, mounting glades,

• vision [´viʒən] n.视觉；想象力；幻影 (初中英语单词)
• worship [´wə:ʃip] n.&v.崇拜；敬仰 (初中英语单词)
• channel [´tʃænəl] n.海峡；航道；途径 (初中英语单词)
• throat [θrəut] n.咽喉；嗓子；出入口 (初中英语单词)
• warmth [wɔ:mθ] n.温暖；热情；激动 (初中英语单词)
• sacred [´seikrid] a.神圣的；庄严的 (初中英语单词)
• horror [´hɔrə] n.恐怖；战栗 (初中英语单词)
• laughter [´lɑ:ftə] n.笑，笑声 (初中英语单词)
• pasture [´pɑ:stʃə] n.牧场；放牧 v.吃(草) (初中英语单词)
• keenly [´ki:nli] ad.敏锐地；强烈地 (初中英语单词)
• cunning [´kʌniŋ] a.&n.狡猾(诡诈)的 (初中英语单词)
• hooked [hukt] a.钩状的；上瘾的 (初中英语单词)
• dragon [´drægən] n.龙 (初中英语单词)
• wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)
• armour [´ɑ:mə] (=armor) n.甲胄，盔甲 (初中英语单词)
• throne [θrəun] n.宝座；王位 (高中英语单词)
• drowsy [´drauzi] a.困倦的；催眠的 (高中英语单词)
• westward [´westwəd] a.向西的 n.西方；西部 (高中英语单词)
• woodland [´wudlənd] n.树林，林地 (高中英语单词)
• volcano [vɔl´keinəu] n.火山 (高中英语单词)
• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)
• onward [´ɔnwəd] ad.&a.向前(的) (高中英语单词)
• fellowship [´feləuʃip] n.团体；伙伴关系；友谊 (英语四级单词)
• superb [su:´pə:b, sju:-] a.宏伟的；极好的 (英语四级单词)
• gathering [´gæðəriŋ] n.集会，聚集 (英语四级单词)
• hearken [´hɑ:kən] vi.听 (英语四级单词)
• knightly [´naitli] a.&ad.骑士般的(地) (英语六级单词)
• discord [´diskɔ:d] n.不一致；不和谐 (英语六级单词)
• phantom [´fæntəm] n.幽灵；幻影 a.幻想的 (英语六级单词)
• ethereal [i´θiəriəl] a.飘渺的；稀薄的 (英语六级单词)
• arched [´ɑ:tʃid] a.弓形(结构)的 (英语六级单词)
• greenwood [´gri:nwud] n.绿林 (英语六级单词)