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The Soul Selects Her Own Society
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The Soul Selects Her Own Society

Poem 303

 
 

The soul selects her own society,

 

Then shuts the door

 

To her divine majority

 

Present no more,

 

Unmoved, she notes the the chariots pausing

5 

At her low gate;

 

Unmoved, an emperor be kneeling

 

Upon her mat﹒

 

I've known her from an ample nation --

 

Choose one

10

Then close the valve of her attention

 

Like stone.

 

 
   
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1

society 

友伴 。

2

shuts the door 

閉門,其意為不與他人交往 。

 3

To her divine majority

majority 同superiority; divine majority 非凡的卓越,不要介紹任何的伙伴給她(即心靈)。

5

Unmoved

不動心 。

 

notes

看到。

 

chariots pausing

兩輪戰車停下來。

9

ample nation 

廣大的國家。

11

the valve of her attention

注意力之活瓣,即她的注意力。

 
   

 

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