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QUEEN: Your prayers are granted; my servant; you will be the gardener of my flower garden。

The Gardener  2

“Ah; poet; the evening draws near; your hair is turning grey。

“Do you in your lonely musing hear the message of the hereafter?”

“It is evening;” the poet said; “and I am listening because someone may call from the village; late though it be。

“I watch if young straying hearts meet together; and two pairs of eager eyes beg for music to break their silence and speak for them。

“Who is there to weave their passionate songs; if I sit on the shore of life and contemplate death and the beyond?

“The early evening star disappears。

“The glow of a funeral pyre slowly dies by the silent river。

“Jackals cry in chorus from the courtyard of the deserted house in the light of the worn…out moon。

“If some wanderer; leaving home; e here to watch the night and with bowed head listen to the murmur of the darkness; who is there to whisper the secrets of life into his ears; if I shutting my doors; should try to free myself from mortal bonds?

“It is a trifle that my hair is turning grey。

“I am ever as young or as old as the youngest and the oldest of this village。

“Some have smiles; sweet and simple; and some a sly twinkle in their eyes。

“Some have tears that well up in the daylight; and others tears that are hidden in the gloom。

“They all have need for me; and I have no time to brood over the afterlife。

“I am of an age with each; what matter if my hair turns grey?”书 包 网 txt小说上传分享

园丁集  第八章(2)

The Gardener  3

In the morning I cast my net into the sea。

I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty—some shone like a smile; some glistened like tears; and some were flushed like the cheeks of a bride。

When with the day’s burden I went home; my love was sitting in the garden idly tearing the leaves of a flower。

I hesitated for a moment; and then placed at her feet all that I had dragged up; and stood silent。

She glanced at them and said;“What strange things are these? I know not of what use they are!”

I bowed my head in shame and thought;“ Have not fought for these; I did not buy them in the market; they are not fit gifts for her。”

Then the whole night through I flung them one by one into the street。

In the morning travellers came; they picked them up and carried them into far countries。

The Gardener  4

Ah me; why did they build my house by the road to the market town?

They moor their laden boats near my trees。

They e and go and wander at their will。

I sit and watch them; my time wears on。

Turn them away I cannot。 And thus my days pass by。

Night and day their steps sound by my door。

Vainly I cry; “I do not know you。”

Some of them are known to my fingers; some to my nostrils; the blood in my veins seems to know them; and some are known to my dreams。

Turn them away I cannot。 I call them and say; “e to my house whoever chooses。 Yes; e。”

In the morning the bell rings in the temple。

They e with their baskets in their hands。

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