Sands at Seventy(五)
分类: 英语诗歌
A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE
A CAROL closing sixty-nine - a résumé
- a repetition,
My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same,
Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
Of you, my Land - your rivers, prairies,
States - you, mottled
Flag I love,
Your aggregate retain'd entire - Of north,
south, east and west, your items all;
Of me myself - the jocund heart yet beating
in my breast,
The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed -
the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,
The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,
The undiminish'd faith - the groups of loving friends.