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——William Drummond—— --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 Summons To Love
Phoebus(1), arise!
And paint the sable skies
With azure, white, and red:
Rouse Memnon's mother(2,3) from her Tithon's (4)bed
That she may thy career with roses spread:
The nightingales thy coming each-where sing:
Make an eternal spring!
Give life to this dark world which lieth dead;
Spread forth thy golden hair
In larger locks than thou wast wont before,
And emperor-like decore
With diadem of pearl thy temples fair:
Chase hence the ugly night
Which serves but to make dear thy glorious light.
This is that happy morn,
That day, long-wished day,
Of all my life so dark,
(If cruel stars have not my ruin sworn,
And fates my hopes betray),
Which, purely white, deserves
An everlasting diamond should it mark.
This is the morn should bring unto this grove
My Love, to hear and recompense my love.
Fair King, who all preserves,
But show thy blushing beams
And thou two sweeter eyes
Shalt see than those which by Peneus' streams
Did once thy heart surprise.
Now, Flora, deck thyself in fairest guise:
If that ye winds would hear
A voice surpassing far Amphion's lyre,
Your furious chiding stay;
Let Zephyr only breathe,
And with her tresses play.
The winds all silent are,
And Phoebus in his chair
Ensaffroning sea and air
Makes vanish every star:
Night like a drunkard reels
Beyond the hills, to shun his flaming wheels:
The fields with flowers are decked in every hue,
The clouds with orient gold spangle their blue;
Here is the pleasant place,
And nothing wanting is, save She, alas!
William Drummond
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注:
(1) Phoebus(福玻斯),在希腊神话中,太阳神又称Phoebus(福玻斯),他每天架者马车(三匹马拉的)装载着太阳的金马车由东向西驶过天空。
(2)Memnon(门农),埃塞俄比亚国王,希腊神话中,他是黎明女神厄俄斯和提诺托斯的儿子.古埃及的法老像,希腊人会将其视为门农的雕像。
(3)Memnon's mother(门农之母),门农的母亲是指厄俄斯,她是光神许珀里翁(Hyperion)与视神忒亚(Thea)的女儿,日神赫利俄斯(Helius)与月神塞勒涅(Selene)的姐妹。
(4)Tithon(提诺托斯),门农的父亲,他是一个凡人,黎明女神厄俄斯爱上了提诺托斯,向宙斯请求让提诺托斯永生 但忘记了要求提诺托斯保持永恒的青春, 提诺托斯虽不会死, 但会逐渐衰老,最后变成了蟋蟀。
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