Collected Poems《Nov 25, 2005 10:16 PM》

Fw: daily quote

from selbsterhaltung

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From: oz.ecstasy

Date: 2005-11-25 下午10:15

Subject: Fw: daily quote

To: bornvagabond.*******@spaces.msn.com

No Road

Since we agreed to let the road between us

Fall to disuse

And bricked our gates up planted trees to screen us

And turned all time's eroding agents loose

Silence and space and strangers - our neglect

Has not had much effect.

Leaves drift unswept perhaps; grass creeps unmown;

No other change.

So clear it stands so little overgrown

Walking that way tonight would not seem strange

And still would be followed. A little longer

And time would be the stronger

Drafting a world where no such road will run

From you to me;

To watch that world come up like a cold sun

Rewarding others is my liberty.

Not to prevent it is my will's fulfillment.

Willing it my ailment.

-- Philip Larkin

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You daily came less near-a pause

longer than life.

你每天渐渐远去——来一个，

比一生更长的停顿。

[你每天渐渐 远 去——一个比生活更长的停顿

停滞

choke

踌躇]