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第23章 BELL-BIRDS

By channels of coolness, the echoes are calling, And, down the dim gorges, I hear the creek falling; It lives in the mountain, where moss and the sedges Touch with their beauty the banks and the ledges; Through brakes of the cedar and sycamore bowers Struggles the light that is love to the flowers;And, softer than slumber and sweeter than singing, The notes of the bell-birds are running and ringing.

The silver-voiced bell-birds, the darlings of day-time, They sing in September their songs of the May-time. When shadows wax strong, and the thunderbolts hurtle, They hide with their fear in the leaves of the myrtle; When rain and the sunbeams shine mingled together, They start up like fairies that follow fair weather,And straightway the hues of their feathers unfolden Are the green and the purple, the blue and the golden.

October, the maiden of bright yellow tresses, Loiters for love in these cool wildernesses, Loiters knee-deep in the grasses to listen,Where dripping rocks gleam, and the leafy pools glisten. Then is the time when the water-moons splendidBreak with their gold, and are scattered or blended Over the creeks, till the woodlands have warning Of songs of the bell-bird and wings of the morning.

Welcome as waters unkissed by the summers Are the voices of bell-birds to thirsty far-comers. When fiery December sets foot in the forest,And the need of the wayfarer presses the sorest, Pent in the ridges for ever and ever,The bell-bird directs him to spring and to river,With ring and with ripple, like runnels whose torrents Are toned by the pebbles and leaves in the currents.

Often I sit, looking back to a childhood

Mixed with the sights and the sounds of the wildwood, Longing for power and the sweetness to fashionLyrics with beats like the heart-beats of passion- Songs interwoven of lights and of laughters Borrowed from bell-birds in far forest rafters;So I might keep in the city and alleys

The beauty and strength of the deep mountain valleys,Charming to slumber the pain of my losses With glimpses of creeks and a vision of mosses.

Henry Clarence Kendall

Author.-Henry Kendall(1841-82), who wrote noteworthy lyrics and deions in verse of Australian scenery, was born in New South Wales. He was the grandson of a member of the first band of missionaries sent to New Zealand (1814). Three volumes of Kendall"s verse were published in his lifetime, and several books of selections since. The nearest approach to a complete collection is entitled The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall.

General.-Note the smooth flow of the metre, and the use made ofalliteration- " echoes " and " calling, " "down " and "dim, " "cedar " and "syca- more," "far forest rafters," and so on. In what States do cedars and sycamores grow? What are water-moons? Pick out the rare or old- fashioned words such as "hurtle, " " wildwood. " Why did Kendall write much about hills and crecks and waterfalls? What does that line mean- "They sing in September the songs of the May-time "? Do "shadows wax strong " in stormy weather? Does the musical metre fit the subject? Pick out the choicest phrases. Don"t confuse the bell-miner (ting-ting-ting) with the crested bell-bird that sings " Tip-tip-top-o"-the-wat-tle, " or, more unpoetically, " Bob-Bob-Bob-in-the-lock-up. "

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