[創作] Now I gaze at his savage countenance

[amadeus1223 (L'amor Celeste)]

Now I gaze at his savage countenance:
  Coarse surface, gross hair, a pair of dull eyes,
  In a distorted mirror, where he lies
In the air of baseness and ignorance.
So I ask: "What sort of desperate chance
  Thou deemst thou ownst to toss the fatal dice
  Of love?" And in a blast he painfully cries---
The fierce fire of shame puts on a dire dance,

Trapping him in ceaseless torment, whose frame
  Begins to dissolve, diffuse, dissipate;*
    The dread pyre consumes all in ash and dirt,
  But a heart remains, without ruth nor hate,
Fine and firm in the core; I shall not blame
    His transgression, for I know: it doth hurt.



*from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria

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Amor vincit omnia.

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推 spacedunce5:Typo: 1st stanza last word: furnace
→ spacedunce5:and what part is coleridge's?
→ amadeus1223:oh~I didn't notice that, thank you!
→ amadeus1223:the three d verbs are from his
→ amadeus1223:discussion on fancy and imagination
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→ amadeus1223:So I have to consider the rhyme
→ amadeus1223:scheme again...
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