The Leaden Echo-Gerard Manley Ho

The Leaden Echo

How to kéep—is there ány any, is there nonesuch, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, láce, latch or catchor key to keep

Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty,beauty, … from vanishing away?

ó is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rankéd wrinkles deep,

Dówn? no waving off of these most mournfulmessengers, still messengers, sad and stealing messengers of grey?

No there ’s none, there ’s none, O no there’s none,

Nor can you long be, what you now are,called fair,

Do what you may do, what, do what you may,

And wisdom is early to despair:

Be beginning; since, no, nothing can bedone

To keep at bay

Age and age’s evils, hoar hair,

Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death’sworst, winding sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;

So be beginning, be beginning to despair.

O there ’s none; no no no there ’s none:

Be beginning to despair, to despair,

Despair, despair, despair, despair.

如何留住它

有没有

有没有这样的物什

或是胸针 发辫 锁扣

或是门闩把手 钥匙

能留住美丽

留住它的柔美 娇美 不让它流逝

啊不要蹙额 将眉间的皱纹平抚

它们仍是最为悲痛的使者 

哀伤和偷走时光的白发使者

不 没有出路

红颜易老 韶华易逝

时间是绝对公平的

尽力而为 尽汝所能

智慧易夭折于绝望

那么开始吧

一筹莫展 无可挽留

岁月与光阴之恶魔

如雪白发 起褶发皱 枯萎垂死

糟糕的死亡

裹尸布 坟墓 蛆虫

一同腐烂

那么开始吧 投向绝望

啊无可辩驳 毋须挣扎

投向绝望 沉迷于它

绝望

投向绝望 沉迷于它

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