His prize from tidal battles lost or won,

Reveals the scheme to animate his race:



How that it is a warfare but begun;

Unending; with no Power to interpose;



No prayer, save for strength to keep his ground,

Heard of the Highest; never battle's close,



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Nor solace in defeat, save from that sense



Of strength well spent, which is the strength renewed.

In manhood must he find his competence;



In his clear mind the spiritual food:

God being there while he his fight maintains;



Throughout his mind the Master Mind being there,

While he rejects the suicide despair;



Accepts the spur of explicable pains;

Obedient to Nature, not her slave:



Her lord, if to her rigid laws he bows;

Her dust, if with his conscience he plays knave,



And bids the Passions on the Pleasures browse:-

Whence Evil in a world unread before;



That mystery to simple springs resolved.

His God the Known, diviner to adore,



Shows Nature's savage riddles kindly solved.

Inconscient, insensitive, she reigns



In iron laws, though rapturous fair her face.

Back to the primal brute shall he retrace



His path, doth he permit to force her chains

A soft Persuader coursing through his veins,



An icy Huntress stringing to the chase:

What one the flash disdains;



What one so gives it grace.

But is he rightly manful in her eyes,



A splendid bloodless knight to gain the skies,

A blood-hot son of Earth by all her signs,



Desireing and desireable he shines;

As peaches, that have caught the sun's uprise



And kissed warm gold till noonday, even as vines.

Earth fills him with her juices, without fear



That she will cast him drunken down the steeps.

All woman is she to this man most dear;



He sows for bread, and she in spirit reaps:

She conscient, she sensitive, in him;



With him enwound, his brave ambition hers:

By him humaner made; by his keen spurs



Pricked to race past the pride in giant limb,

Her crazy adoration of big thews,



Proud in her primal sons, when crags they hurled,

Were thunder spitting lightnings on the world



In daily deeds, and she their evening Muse.

This man, this hero, works not to destroy;



This godlike--as the rock in ocean stands; -

He of the myriad eyes, the myriad hands



Creative; in his edifice has joy.

How strength may serve for purity is shown



When he himself can scourge to make it clean.

Withal his pitch of pride would not disown



A sober world that walks the balanced mean

Between its tempters, rarely overthrown:



And such at times his army's march has been.

Near is he to great Nature in the thought



Each changing Season intimately saith,

That nought save apparition knows the death;



To the God-lighted mind of man 'tis nought.

She counts not loss a word of any weight;



It may befal his passions and his greeds

To lose their treasures, like the vein that bleeds,



But life gone breathless will she reinstate.

Close on the heart of Earth his bosom beats,



When he the mandate lodged in it obeys,

Alive to breast a future wrapped in haze,

• hunger [´hʌŋgə] n.饥饿；渴望 (初中英语单词)


• shallow [´ʃæləu] a.肤浅的；表面的 (初中英语单词)


• reading [´ri:diŋ] n.(阅)读；朗读；读物 (初中英语单词)


• gracious [´greiʃəs] a.和蔼可亲的；任慈的 (初中英语单词)


• haunted [´hɔ:tid] a.常出现鬼的，闹鬼的 (初中英语单词)


• marvel [´mɑ:vəl] n.令人惊异的事；奇迹 (初中英语单词)


• backward [´bækwəd] ad.向后 a.向后的 (初中英语单词)


• licence [´laisəns] n.许可；执照 vt.批准 (初中英语单词)


• visible [´vizəbəl] a.可见的；明显的 (初中英语单词)


• generous [´dʒenərəs] a.慷慨的；丰盛的 (初中英语单词)


• sacred [´seikrid] a.神圣的；庄严的 (初中英语单词)


• upward [´ʌpwəd] a.&ad.向上(的)；以上 (初中英语单词)


• conflict [´kɔnflikt, kən´flikt] n.&vi.战斗；抵触 (初中英语单词)


• fierce [fiəs] a.残忍的；强烈的 (初中英语单词)


• vision [´viʒən] n.视觉；想象力；幻影 (初中英语单词)


• wilderness [´wildənis] n.荒地，荒野 (初中英语单词)


• coward [´kauəd] n.胆怯者 a.胆小的 (初中英语单词)


• shepherd [´ʃepəd] n.牧羊人 vt.带领 (初中英语单词)


• ribbed [ribd] n.呈肋状的；有罗纹的 (初中英语单词)


• hostile [´hɔstail] a.敌方的，敌意的 (初中英语单词)


• traitor [´treitə] n.叛徒，卖国贼 (初中英语单词)


• forehead [´fɔrid] n.额，前部 (初中英语单词)


• spiritual [´spiritʃuəl] a.精神(上)的；神圣的 (初中英语单词)


• scheme [ski:m] n.计划；阴谋，诡计 (初中英语单词)


• victory [´viktəri] n.胜利，战胜 (初中英语单词)


• conscience [´kɔnʃəns] n.良心；道德心 (初中英语单词)


• mystery [´mistəri] n.神秘；秘密；故弄玄虚 (初中英语单词)


• savage [´sævidʒ] a.野蛮的 n.蛮人 (初中英语单词)


• drunken [´drʌŋkən] a.喝醉的；常醉的 (初中英语单词)


• ambition [æm´biʃən] n.雄心，野心；企图 (初中英语单词)


• thunder [´θʌndə] n.雷 vi.打雷 vt.吼出 (初中英语单词)


• purity [´pjuəriti] n.纯净；贞洁 (初中英语单词)


• rarely [´reəli] ad.难得；非凡地 (初中英语单词)


• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)


• ragged [´rægid] a.衣服破烂的 (高中英语单词)


• insane [in´sein] a.患神经病的；疯狂的 (高中英语单词)


• onward [´ɔnwəd] ad.&a.向前(的) (高中英语单词)


• spacious [´speiʃəs] a.广阔的，宽敞的 (高中英语单词)


• reverence [´revərəns] n.尊敬；敬畏；尊严 (高中英语单词)


• goodly [´gudli] a.适意的；漂亮的 (高中英语单词)


• anguish [´æŋgwiʃ] n.(极度的)痛苦；苦恼 (高中英语单词)


• ecstasy [´ekstəsi] n.狂喜；出神，入迷 (高中英语单词)


• radiant [´reidiənt] a.发光的 n.光源(体) (高中英语单词)


• celestial [si´lestiəl] a.天空的，天的 (高中英语单词)


• brotherhood [´brʌðəhud] n.兄弟情谊；兄弟关系 (高中英语单词)


• solitary [´sɔlitəri] a.独居的；孤独的 (高中英语单词)


• treason [´tri:zən] n.叛逆；不忠 (高中英语单词)


• strive [straiv] vi.争取；努力；奋斗 (高中英语单词)


• smother [´smʌðə] v.抑制；覆盖 n.浓烟 (高中英语单词)


• torment [´tɔ:ment] vt.(使)痛苦，折磨 (高中英语单词)


• penetrate [´penitreit] v.贯穿；穿透；渗透 (高中英语单词)


• perilous [´periləs] a.危险的；冒险的 (高中英语单词)


• unseen [,ʌn´si:n] a.未看见的 (高中英语单词)


• crimson [´krimzən] a.&n.深(紫)红(的) (高中英语单词)


• fruitful [´fru:tfəl] a.成功的；丰富的 (高中英语单词)


• warfare [´wɔ:feə] n.战争；斗争；竞争 (高中英语单词)


• manhood [´mænhud] n.人格；男子气概 (高中英语单词)


• suicide [´su:isaid, ´sju:-] n.&a.自杀(者)(的) (高中英语单词)


• knight [nait] n.骑士；爵士 (高中英语单词)


• sensitive [´sensitiv] a.敏感的；感光的 (高中英语单词)


• scourge [skə:dʒ] v.&n.鞭(打)；严惩 (高中英语单词)


• breathless [´breθlis] a.屏息的 (高中英语单词)


• whereof [weər´ɔv] ad.关于什么；关于那事 (英语四级单词)


• shingle [´ʃiŋgəl] n.盖屋板；木瓦 (英语四级单词)


• whence [wens] ad.从何处；从那里 (英语四级单词)


• fellowship [´feləuʃip] n.团体；伙伴关系；友谊 (英语四级单词)


• divinity [di´viniti] n.神性，神；神学 (英语四级单词)


• adversary [´ædvəsəri] n.敌手，对手 (英语四级单词)


• starry [´stɑ:ri] a.星光照耀的，闪亮的 (英语四级单词)


• wistful [´wistfəl] a.渴望的；不满足的 (英语四级单词)


• blindness [´blaindnis] n.失明；愚味，文盲 (英语四级单词)


• seeming [´si:miŋ] a.表面上的 n.外观 (英语四级单词)


• victor [´viktə] n.&a.胜利者(的) (英语四级单词)


• rightly [´raitli] ad.正义地；正确地 (英语四级单词)


• noonday [´nu:ndei] n.正午 (英语四级单词)


• myriad [´miriəd] n.极大数量 a.无数的 (英语四级单词)


• edifice [´edifis] n.大厦；(知识的)体系 (英语四级单词)


• nought [nɔ:t] n.=naught (英语四级单词)


• compulsion [kəm´pʌlʃ(ə)n] n.强制；强迫 (英语六级单词)


• animate [´ænimit, ´ænimeit] vt.使有生气；激励 (英语六级单词)


• solace [´sɔləs] n.&vt.安慰(物)；缓和 (英语六级单词)


• adoration [,ædə´reiʃən] n.崇拜，敬爱 (英语六级单词)


• intimately [´intimitli] ad.密切地；熟悉地 (英语六级单词)


• apparition [,æpə´riʃən] n.(幽灵)出现；鬼；幻影 (英语六级单词)


• mandate [´mændeit] n.训令；委任 vt.托管 (英语六级单词)