a reading of life-第8章
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Poem: The Mares Of The Camargue
'From the MIREIO of Mistral'
A hundred mares; all white! their manes
Like mace…reed of the marshy plains
Thick…tufted; wavy; free o' the shears:
And when the fiery squadron rears
Bursting at speed; each mane appears
Even as the white scarf of a fay
Floating upon their necks along the heavens away。
O race of humankind; take shame!
For never yet a hand could tame;
Nor bitter spur that rips the flanks subdue
The mares of the Camargue。 I have known;
By treason snared; some captives shown;
Expatriate from their native Rhone;
Led off; their saline pastures far from view:
And on a day; with prompt rebound;
They have flung their riders to the ground;
And at a single gallop; scouring free;
Wide…nostril'd to the wind; twice ten
Of long marsh…leagues devour'd; and then;
Back to the Vacares again;
After ten years of slavery just to breathe salt sea
For of this savage race unbent;
The ocean is the element。
Of old escaped from Neptune's car; full sure;
Still with the white foam fleck'd are they;
And when the sea puffs black from grey;
And ships part cables; loudly neigh
The stallions of Camargue; all joyful in the roar;
And keen as a whip they lash and crack
Their tails that drag the dust; and back
Scratch up the earth; and feel; entering their flesh; where he;
The God; drives deep his trident teeth;
Who in one horror; above; beneath;
Bids storm and watery deluge seethe;
And shatters to their depths the abysses of the sea。
Cant。 iv。
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