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| Ode: Intimations of Immortality IX |
| 作者Author / William Wordsworth 威廉．華滋華斯 |
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ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
釋
意（paraphrase）: IX
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Fr.
Demiers: 懂人的談神父
Fr.
Demers: IN REMEMBRANCE OF PIERRE DEMERS, SJ
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Fortunately,
there are some effects that even in our adult years remain and nature
still remembers even though most of them have flown away. When I
remember our past years I offer a blessing, not for the most worthy
things like delight, liberty, and simple childhood belief (whether the
child is busy or resting with his new hope still in his heart), but
rather for those difficult questions of sense, sensible things and
outward things, falling from us, vanishing which are the thoughts of a
creature who is moving around in worlds not yet truly made real, nor
yet poetically seen. These are instincts before which our mortal nature
trembles like surprising a person doing an evil act. But for those
first feelings and remembrance which are still the source of light for
all our day, they are still the master light of all we see. They
sustain us and ahve the power to make our younger years seem moments in
the being of the eternal silence: truths that wake and never perish ,
truths which neither a lack of interest nor a mad struggling for,
neither man nor boy, nor all of these at enmity with our joy can
utterly abolish or destroy. Therefore, when the wether is calm and even
though we are far inland, our souls can in a moment's time return there
and see the children playing on the shore and hear waters rolling. |
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