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Grass of Parnassus
by Andrew Lang
Contents:
Grass of Parnassus
Deeds of men:
Seekers for a city
The white pacha
Midnight, January 25, 1886
Advance, Australia
Colonel Burnaby
Melville and Coghill
Rhodocleia:
To rhodocleia - on her melancholy singing
Ave:
Clevedon church
Twilight on Tweed *
Metempsychosis *
Lost in Hades *
A star in the night *
A sunset on yarrow *
Another way
Hesperothen:
The seekers for Phaeacia
A song of Phaeacia
The departure from Phaeacia
A ballad of departure
They hear the sirens for the second time
Circe's Isle revisited
The limit of lands
Verses:
Martial in town
April on Tweed
Tired of towns
Scythe song
Pen and ink
A dream
The singing rose
A review in rhyme
Colinette *
A sunset of Watteau *
Nightingale weather *
Love and wisdom *
Good-bye *
An old prayer *
A la belle Helene *
Sylvie et Aurelie *
A lost path *
The shade of Helen *
Sonnets:
She
Herodotus in Egypt
Gerard de Nerval *
Ronsard *
Love's miracle *
Dreams *
Two sonnets of the sirens *
Translations:
Hymn to the winds *
Moonlight *
The grave and the rose *
A vow to heavenly Venus *
Of his lady's old age *
Shadows of his lady *
April *
An old tune *
Old loves *
A lady of high degree *
Iannoula *
The milk-white doe *
Heliodore
The prophet
Lais
Clearista
The fisherman's tomb
Of his death
Rhodope
To a girl
To the ships
A late convert
The limit of life
To Daniel Elzevir
The last chance
To E. M. S.
Prima dicta mihi, summa dicenda Camena.
The years will pass, and hearts will range,
YOU conquer Time, and Care, and Change.
Though Time doth still delight to shed
The dust on many a younger head;
Though Care, oft coming, hath the guile
From younger lips to steal the smile;
Though Change makes younger hearts wax cold,
And sells new loves for loves of old,
Time, Change, nor Care, hath learned the art
To fleck your hair, to chill your heart,
To touch your tresses with the snow,
To mar your mirth of long ago.
Change, Care, nor Time, while life endure,
Shall spoil our ancient friendship sure,
The love which flows from sacred springs,
In 'old unhappyfar-off things,'
From sympathies in grief and joy,
Through all the years of man and boy.
Therefore, to you, the rhymes I strung
When even this 'brindled' head was young
I bring, and later rhymes I bring
That flit upon as weak a wing,
But still for you, for yours, they sing!
Many of the verses and translations in this volume were published
first in BALLADS AND LYRICS OF OLD FRANCE (1872). Though very
sensible that they have the demerits of imitative and even of
undergraduate rhyme, I print them again because people I like have
liked them. The rest are of different dates, and lack (though
doubtless they need) the excuse of having been written, like some
of the earlier pieces, during College Lectures. I would gladly
have added to this volume what other more or less serious rhymes I
have written, but circumstances over which I have no control have
bound them up with BALLADES, and other toys of that sort.
It may be as well to repeat in prose, what has already been said in
verse, that Grass of Parnassus, the pretty Autumn flower, grows in
the marshes at the foot of the Muses' Hill, and other hills, not at
the top by any means.
Several of the versions from the Greek Anthology have been
published in the FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, and the sonnet on Colonel
Burnaby appeared in PUNCH. These, with pieces from other serials,
are reprinted by the courteouspermission of the Editors.
The verses that were published in BALLADES AND LYRICS, and in
BALLADS AND VERSES VAIN (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York), are
marked in the contents with an asterisk.
GRASS OF PARNASSUS.
Pale star that by the lochs of Galloway,
In wet green places 'twixt the depth and height
Dost keep thine hour while Autumn ebbs away,
When now the moors have doffed the heather bright,
Grass of Parnassus, flower of my delight,
How gladly with the unpermitted bay -
Garlands not mine, and leaves that not decay -
How gladly would I twine thee if I might!
The bays are out of reach! But far below
The peaks forbidden of the Muses' Hill,
Grass of Parnassus, thy returning snow
Between September and October chill
Doth speak to me of Autumns long ago,
And these kind faces that are with me still.
DEEDS OF MEN
[Greek text which cannot be reproduced]. To Colonel Ian Hamilton.
To you, who know the face of war,
You, that for England wander far,
You that have seen the Ghazis fly
From English lads not sworn to die,
You that have lain where, deadly chill,
The mist crept o'er the Shameful Hill,
You that have conquered, mile by mile,
The currents of unfriendly Nile,
And cheered the march, and eased the strain
When Politics made valour vain,
Ian, to you, from banks of Ken,
We send our lays of Englishmen!
SEEKERS FOR A CITY.
"Believe me, if that blissful, that beautiful place, were set on a
hill visible to all the world, I should long ago have journeyed
thither. . . But the number and variety of the ways! For you know,
THERE IS BUT ONE ROAD THAT LEADS TO CORINTH."
HERMOTIMUS (Mr Pater's Version).
"The Poet says, DEAR CITY OF CECROPS, and wilt thou not say, DEAR
CITY OF ZEUS?"
M. ANTONINUS.
"To Corinth leads one road," you say:
Is there a Corinth, or a way?
Each bland or blatant preacher" target="_blank" title="n.讲道者，传教士">preacher hath
His painful or his primrose path,
And not a soul of all of these
But knows the city 'twixt the seas,
Her fair unnumbered homes and all
Her gleaming amethystine wall!
Blind are the guides who know the way,
The guides who write, and preach, and pray,
I watch their lives, and I divine
They differ not from yours and mine!
One man we knew, and only one,
Whose seeking for a city's done,
For what he greatly sought he found,
A city girt with fire around,
A city in an empty land
Between the wastes of sky and sand,
A city on a river-side,
Where by the folk he loved, he died. (1)
Alas! it is not ours to tread
That path wherein his life he led,
Not ours his heart to dare and feel,
Keen as the fragrant Syrian steel;
Yet are we not quite city-less,
Not wholly left in our distress -
Is it not said by One of old,
"Sheep have I of another fold?"
Ah! faint of heart, and weak of will,
For us there is a city still!
"Dear city of Zeus," the Stoic says, (2)
The Voice from Rome's imperial days,
In Thee meet all things, and disperse,
In Thee, for Thee, O Universe!
To me all's fruit thy seasons bring,
by Andrew Lang
Contents:
Grass of Parnassus
Deeds of men:
Seekers for a city
The white pacha
Midnight, January 25, 1886
Advance, Australia
Colonel Burnaby
Melville and Coghill
Rhodocleia:
To rhodocleia - on her melancholy singing
Ave:
Clevedon church
Twilight on Tweed *
Metempsychosis *
Lost in Hades *
A star in the night *
A sunset on yarrow *
Another way
Hesperothen:
The seekers for Phaeacia
A song of Phaeacia
The departure from Phaeacia
A ballad of departure
They hear the sirens for the second time
Circe's Isle revisited
The limit of lands
Verses:
Martial in town
April on Tweed
Tired of towns
Scythe song
Pen and ink
A dream
The singing rose
A review in rhyme
Colinette *
A sunset of Watteau *
Nightingale weather *
Love and wisdom *
Good-bye *
An old prayer *
A la belle Helene *
Sylvie et Aurelie *
A lost path *
The shade of Helen *
Sonnets:
She
Herodotus in Egypt
Gerard de Nerval *
Ronsard *
Love's miracle *
Dreams *
Two sonnets of the sirens *
Translations:
Hymn to the winds *
Moonlight *
The grave and the rose *
A vow to heavenly Venus *
Of his lady's old age *
Shadows of his lady *
April *
An old tune *
Old loves *
A lady of high degree *
Iannoula *
The milk-white doe *
Heliodore
The prophet
Lais
Clearista
The fisherman's tomb
Of his death
Rhodope
To a girl
To the ships
A late convert
The limit of life
To Daniel Elzevir
The last chance
To E. M. S.
Prima dicta mihi, summa dicenda Camena.
The years will pass, and hearts will range,
YOU conquer Time, and Care, and Change.
Though Time doth still delight to shed
The dust on many a younger head;
Though Care, oft coming, hath the guile
From younger lips to steal the smile;
Though Change makes younger hearts wax cold,
And sells new loves for loves of old,
Time, Change, nor Care, hath learned the art
To fleck your hair, to chill your heart,
To touch your tresses with the snow,
To mar your mirth of long ago.
Change, Care, nor Time, while life endure,
Shall spoil our ancient friendship sure,
The love which flows from sacred springs,
In 'old unhappyfar-off things,'
From sympathies in grief and joy,
Through all the years of man and boy.
Therefore, to you, the rhymes I strung
When even this 'brindled' head was young
I bring, and later rhymes I bring
That flit upon as weak a wing,
But still for you, for yours, they sing!
Many of the verses and translations in this volume were published
first in BALLADS AND LYRICS OF OLD FRANCE (1872). Though very
sensible that they have the demerits of imitative and even of
undergraduate rhyme, I print them again because people I like have
liked them. The rest are of different dates, and lack (though
doubtless they need) the excuse of having been written, like some
of the earlier pieces, during College Lectures. I would gladly
have added to this volume what other more or less serious rhymes I
have written, but circumstances over which I have no control have
bound them up with BALLADES, and other toys of that sort.
It may be as well to repeat in prose, what has already been said in
verse, that Grass of Parnassus, the pretty Autumn flower, grows in
the marshes at the foot of the Muses' Hill, and other hills, not at
the top by any means.
Several of the versions from the Greek Anthology have been
published in the FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, and the sonnet on Colonel
Burnaby appeared in PUNCH. These, with pieces from other serials,
are reprinted by the courteouspermission of the Editors.
The verses that were published in BALLADES AND LYRICS, and in
BALLADS AND VERSES VAIN (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York), are
marked in the contents with an asterisk.
GRASS OF PARNASSUS.
Pale star that by the lochs of Galloway,
In wet green places 'twixt the depth and height
Dost keep thine hour while Autumn ebbs away,
When now the moors have doffed the heather bright,
Grass of Parnassus, flower of my delight,
How gladly with the unpermitted bay -
Garlands not mine, and leaves that not decay -
How gladly would I twine thee if I might!
The bays are out of reach! But far below
The peaks forbidden of the Muses' Hill,
Grass of Parnassus, thy returning snow
Between September and October chill
Doth speak to me of Autumns long ago,
And these kind faces that are with me still.
DEEDS OF MEN
[Greek text which cannot be reproduced]. To Colonel Ian Hamilton.
To you, who know the face of war,
You, that for England wander far,
You that have seen the Ghazis fly
From English lads not sworn to die,
You that have lain where, deadly chill,
The mist crept o'er the Shameful Hill,
You that have conquered, mile by mile,
The currents of unfriendly Nile,
And cheered the march, and eased the strain
When Politics made valour vain,
Ian, to you, from banks of Ken,
We send our lays of Englishmen!
SEEKERS FOR A CITY.
"Believe me, if that blissful, that beautiful place, were set on a
hill visible to all the world, I should long ago have journeyed
thither. . . But the number and variety of the ways! For you know,
THERE IS BUT ONE ROAD THAT LEADS TO CORINTH."
HERMOTIMUS (Mr Pater's Version).
"The Poet says, DEAR CITY OF CECROPS, and wilt thou not say, DEAR
CITY OF ZEUS?"
M. ANTONINUS.
"To Corinth leads one road," you say:
Is there a Corinth, or a way?
Each bland or blatant preacher" target="_blank" title="n.讲道者，传教士">preacher hath
His painful or his primrose path,
And not a soul of all of these
But knows the city 'twixt the seas,
Her fair unnumbered homes and all
Her gleaming amethystine wall!
Blind are the guides who know the way,
The guides who write, and preach, and pray,
I watch their lives, and I divine
They differ not from yours and mine!
One man we knew, and only one,
Whose seeking for a city's done,
For what he greatly sought he found,
A city girt with fire around,
A city in an empty land
Between the wastes of sky and sand,
A city on a river-side,
Where by the folk he loved, he died. (1)
Alas! it is not ours to tread
That path wherein his life he led,
Not ours his heart to dare and feel,
Keen as the fragrant Syrian steel;
Yet are we not quite city-less,
Not wholly left in our distress -
Is it not said by One of old,
"Sheep have I of another fold?"
Ah! faint of heart, and weak of will,
For us there is a city still!
"Dear city of Zeus," the Stoic says, (2)
The Voice from Rome's imperial days,
In Thee meet all things, and disperse,
In Thee, for Thee, O Universe!
To me all's fruit thy seasons bring,
- sunset [´sʌnset]
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- review [ri´vju:] v.&n.复习；回顾；检查 (初中英语单词)
- wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)
- miracle [´mirəkl] n.奇迹；令人惊奇的 (初中英语单词)
- conquer [´kɔŋkə] v.征服；克服；抑制 (初中英语单词)
- sacred [´seikrid] a.神圣的；庄严的 (初中英语单词)
- unhappy [ʌn´hæpi] a.不幸的；不快乐的 (初中英语单词)
- volume [´vɔlju:m, ´vɑljəm] n.卷；书籍；体积；容量 (初中英语单词)
- permission [pə´miʃən] n.允许；同意；许可 (初中英语单词)
- contents [´kɔ:ntents] n.容纳物；要旨 (初中英语单词)
- wander [´wɔndə, ´wɑ:n:dər] v.徘徊；流浪 (初中英语单词)
- deadly [´dedli] a.致命的 ad.死一般地 (初中英语单词)
- politics [´pɔlitiks] n.政治(学)；政治活动 (初中英语单词)
- visible [´vizəbəl] a.可见的；明显的 (初中英语单词)
- variety [və´raiəti] n.变化；多样(性)；种类 (初中英语单词)
- preach [pri:tʃ] v.宣扬；鼓吹 n.训诫 (初中英语单词)
- differ [´difə] vi.不同；有差别 (初中英语单词)
- wholly [´həul-li] ad.完全，十足；统统 (初中英语单词)
- distress [di´stres] n.痛苦 vt.使苦恼 (初中英语单词)
- imperial [im´piəriəl] a.帝国的；庄严的 (初中英语单词)
- melancholy [´melənkəli] n.忧郁 a.忧郁的 (高中英语单词)
- ballad [´bæləd] n.民歌，民谣 (高中英语单词)
- heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)
- learned [´lə:nid] a.有学问的，博学的 (高中英语单词)
- courteous [´kə:tiəs] a.有礼貌的；殷勤的 (高中英语单词)
- gladly [´glædli] ad.愉快地，高兴地 (高中英语单词)
- forbidden [fə´bidn] forbid的过去分词 (高中英语单词)
- colonel [´kə:nəl] n.海(陆)军上校 (高中英语单词)
- preacher [´pri:tʃə] n.讲道者，传教士 (高中英语单词)
- painful [´peinfəl] a.痛(苦)的；费力的 (高中英语单词)
- wherein [weər´in] ad.那里面 (高中英语单词)
- fragrant [´freigrənt] a.芳香的，芬芳的 (高中英语单词)
- far-off [´fɑ:rɔ:f] a.远方的，遥远的 (英语四级单词)
- sonnet [´sɔnit] n.十四行诗 (英语四级单词)
- shameful [´ʃeimfəl] a.可耻的；猥亵的 (英语四级单词)
- valour [´vælə] n.英勇，勇猛 (英语四级单词)
- primrose [´primrəuz] n.樱草(花) a.樱草的 (英语四级单词)
- heather [´heðə] n.石南属植物 (英语六级单词)
- syrian [´siriən] a.&n.叙利亚人(的) (英语六级单词)
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