英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

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英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

1 O$ d- Z+ |  S% l' C　　Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
　　London has swept about you this score years
　　And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
　　Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
. c& y0 R1 y2 ^4 O; I9 E　　Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
8 K- |- ?7 A, m7 z: k　　Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else.
" n' B  n9 W/ ?: I　　You have been second always. Tragical?
　　No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
　　One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
2 ~  {( Y: m9 _& ~! T( _　　One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
　　Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
2 x1 U+ u! J* ~0 H: \　　Hours, where something might have floated up.
　　And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
: Y- V" Y5 ?8 g3 f( W1 j5 e) O" W/ I　　You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
　　And takes strange gain away:
　　Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
& g, L- n. ~" H  X0 ]8 r　　Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
　　Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
　　That might prove useful and yet never proves,
　　That never fits a corner or shows use,
! h5 H6 E$ A; _/ n8 K: m" }9 Y　　Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
, g5 g9 n& ^+ F2 @6 w  ]- [　　The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
' M( P/ k. ^" ?2 A　　Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
" B! C" G* X2 z, o# t1 i　　These are your riches, your great store; and yet
　　For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
: S# h; S7 a7 t" v* Z! N　　Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
$ U% o, k( m5 B+ p# l' s) _" T　　In the slow float of differing light and deep,
　　No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
　　Nothing that's quite your own.
5 v7 ~/ P& e6 e& c2 T　　Yet this is you.
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