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The Autumn by Elizabeth Barret Browning

2006-12-05 15:11:21 / 个人分类：书吧英语角

The Autumn
poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
   And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
   Do hymn an autumn sound. (To praise, glorify, or worship in or as if in a hymn.)
The summer sun is faint on them --
   The summer flowers depart --
Sit still -- as all transform'd to stone, (To change markedly the appearance or form of)
     Except your musing heart.( To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation.)

How there you sat in summer-time,
   May yet be in your mind;
And how you heard the green woods sing
   Beneath the freshening wind.
Though the same wind now blows around,
   You would its blast recall; (A very strong gust of wind or air.)
For every breath that stirs the trees,
   Doth cause a leaf to fall.

Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth (Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter.)
   That flesh and dust impart:
We cannot bear its visitings,
   When change is on the heart.
Gay words and jests may make us smile, (A playful or amusing act; joke.)
   When Sorrow is asleep;
But other things must make us smile,
   When Sorrow bids us weep! (To issue a command to; direct.)

The dearest hands that clasp our hands, --
   Their presence may be o'er;
The dearest voice that meets our ear,
   That tone may come no more!
Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,
   Which once refresh'd our mind,
Shall come -- as, on those sighing woods,
   The chilling autumn wind.

Hear not the wind -- view not the woods;
   Look out o'er vale and hill-
In spring, the sky encircled them --
   The sky is round them still.
Come autumn's scathe -- come winter's cold – (Harm or injury.)
   Come change -- and human fate!
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,
   Can ne'er be desolate. (Barren; lifeless)

The Autumn by Elizabeth Barret Browning

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