[轉錄][英詩] Marianne Moore, In Distrust of Merits

[spacedunce5 (CJ)]

※ [本文轉錄自 spacedunce5 信箱]

作者: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
標題: [英詩] Marianne Moore, In Distrust of Merits
時間: Tue Apr 12 22:02:09 2011

作者: spacedunce5 (顯示為單身) 看板: defenestrate
標題: [英詩] Marianne Moore, In Distrust of Merits
時間: Fri Apr  8 00:04:34 2011

Strengthened to live, strengthened to die for
        medals and positioned victories?
They're fighting, fighting the blind
        man who thinks he sees,----
who cannot see that the enslaver is
enslaved; the hater, harmed. O shining O
        firm star, O tumultuous
                ocean lashed till small things go
        as they will, the mountainous
                wave makes us who look, know

depth. Lost at sea before they fought! O
        star of David, star of Bethlehem,
O black imperial lion
        of the Lord-emblem
of a risen world----be joined at last, be
joined. There is hate's crown beneath which all is
        death; there's love's without which none
                is king; the blessed deeds bless
        the halo. As contagion
          of sickness makes sickness,

contagion of trust can make trust. They're
        fighting in deserts and caves, one by
one, in battalions and squadrons;
        they're fighting that I
may yet recover from the disease, My
Self; some have it lightly; some will die. "Man's
        wolf to man" and we devour
                ourselves. The enemy could not
        have made a greater breach in our
                defenses. One pilot-

ing a blind man can escape him, but
        Job disenheartened by false comfort knew
that nothing can be so defeating
        as a blind man who
can see. O alive who are dead, who are
proud not to see, O small dust of the earth
        that walks so arrogantly,
                trust begets power and faith is
        an affectionate thing. We
                vow, we make this promise

to the fighting----it's a promise----"We'll
        never hate black, white, red, yellow, Jew,
Gentile, Untouchable." We are
        not competent to
make our vows. With set jaw they are fighting,
fighting, fighting,----some we love whom we know,
        some we love but know not----that
                hearts may feel and not be numb.
        It cures me; or I am what
                I can't believe in? Some
in snow, some on crags, some in quicksands,
        little by little, much by much, they
are fighting fighting that where
        there was death there may
be life. "When a man is prey to anger,
he is moved by outside things; when he holds
        his ground in patience patience
                patience, that is action or
        beauty," the soldier's defense
                and hardest armor for

the fight. The world's an orphans' home. Shall
        we never have peace without sorrow?
without pleas of the dying for
        help that won't come? O
quiet form upon the dust, I cannot
look and yet I must. If these great patient
        dyings----all these agonies
                and wound bearings and bloodshed----
        can teach us how to live, these
                dyings were not wasted.

Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron
        iron is iron till it is rust.
There never was a war that was
        not inward; I must
fight till I have conquered in myself what
causes war, but I would not believe it.
        I inwardly did nothing.
                O Iscariot-like crime!
        Beauty is everlasting
                and dust is for a time.

--
→ 甲:那本有點難啃 應該無法看太快
→ 乙:我 同 意 這 句 話 T^T 不過因為時間緊迫
→ 乙:所以非得很快看完不可......
→ 乙:看完一半了剩下再說吧orz
→ 乙:看完了。
--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢兔(ptt2.cc)
◆ From: 122.124.101.146


--
十大謊言↓  http://www.wretch.cc/blog/spacedunce5
1.同學:我沒唸啊，不知道為何考這麼高。   2.來賓:大家好，我只簡單講兩句。
3.老闆:我不會忘記你的貢獻。             4.職員:明天我就不幹了。
5.商人:虧本大拍賣，只到今天。           6.明星:我們只是朋友。
7.男孩:乖，不會痛的。                   8.女孩:這是我的第一次。
9.父母:我幫你把紅包存起來了。          10.歐巴桑:帥哥~~~~~~~

--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) 
◆ From: 122.124.104.235