(原版)澳大利亞語文第五冊 LESSON 27

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LESSON 27 THE BROOK

THE BROOK

I COME from haunts of coot ［1］ and hern ［2］ ,

I make a sudden sally,

And sparkle out among the fern,

To bicker ［3］ down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,

Or slip between the ridges,

By twenty thorps ［4］ , a little town,

And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

I chatter over stony ways,

In little sharps ［5］ and trebles ［6］ ,

I bubble into eddying ［7］ bays,

I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret,

By many a field and fallow ［8］ ,

And many a fairy foreland ［9］ set

With willow-weed ［10］ and mallow ［11］ .

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

I wind about, and in and out,

With here a blossom sailing,

And here and there a lusty trout,

And here and there a grayling ［12］ .

And here and there a foamy flake

Upon me, as I travel

With many a silvery waterbreak

Above the golden gravel.

And draw them all along, and flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

I FLOW TO JOIN THE BRIMMING RIVER.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,

I slide by hazel covers;

I move the sweet forget-me-nots

That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,

Among my skimming swallows;

I make the netted sunbeam dance

Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars

In brambly wildernesses;

I linger by my shingly bars;

I loiter round my cresses ［13］ .

And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

—ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

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［1 ］ coot: A black wading bird.

［2 ］ hern: Heron; a long-legged wading bird.

［3 ］ bicker: Quarrel, carry on a brief battle.

［4 ］ thorp: A group of houses, a village.

［5 ］ sharp: A musical sign to raise a note; shrill sound.

［6 ］ treble: Very high or shrill sound.

［7 ］ eddying: Whirling, moving round and round.

［8 ］ fallow: Ground not being tilled.

［9 ］ foreland: Headland, cape.

［10 ］ willow-weed: A tall, downy weed with purple flowers.

［11 ］ mallow: A plant with downy leaves.

［12 ］ grayling: A fish of the salmon tribe.

［13 ］ cress: A water plant used in salads.