The Solitary Reaper
Wordsworth
Behold her,single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here,or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides➀.
Will no one tell me what she sings?—
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old,unhappy,far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow,loss,or pain,
That has been,and may be again?
Whate’er the theme,the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o’er the sickle bending;—
I listened,motionless and still;
And,as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
➀赫布里底群岛,在苏格兰以西,由500多个大小岛屿组成。
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