英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

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英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme
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　　Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
3 U( G9 t1 }1 [% q; o2 B8 G　　London has swept about you this score years
% Q" N, N+ U" ]; J1 G# I　　And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
# V3 j2 n% i9 I2 y　　Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
( E6 M4 u0 @3 s; x4 w, |　　Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
　　Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else.
　　You have been second always. Tragical?
　　No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
　　One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
9 u7 X/ V+ h! p9 K5 h7 E( M　　One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
　　Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
　　Hours, where something might have floated up.
　　And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
　　You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
　　And takes strange gain away:
! s: [; z, w5 g- v: Z- ]+ l　　Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
* ?* j; V  G/ t; U, j' v　　Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
　　Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
　　That might prove useful and yet never proves,
  @" K- I* L8 D9 S4 H　　That never fits a corner or shows use,
, y" d* X) B# n! G: h' j& _　　Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
　　The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
　　Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
　　These are your riches, your great store; and yet
8 `* U4 a6 e2 Z: Z/ R8 u3 }8 d　　For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
4 J1 v% [  V" u- G/ F　　Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
. i, B  X$ B! Z) s( u　　In the slow float of differing light and deep,
' }1 X+ @, E- z/ h1 E　　No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
2 r& ?2 j( u; U- ?+ i* l　　Nothing that's quite your own.
　　Yet this is you.
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