The Isles of Greece 英汉对照专用课件.pptVIP

The Isles of Greece Lord Byron Background The Isles of Greece 是拜伦的著名长诗《唐璜》第3诗章的一个部分。原来并无标题，只是后人为了方便，权且把第1节第1行当作标题。该章完成于1819年，发表于1821年。The Isles of Greece 集中体现了拜伦对希腊哀其不幸、怒其不争的特殊情怀，为历来传颂的名篇。 THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,---Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them yet,But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse,The heros harp, the lovers lute,Have found the fame your shores refuse;Their place of birth alone is muteTo sounds which echo further westThan your sires Islands of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon---And Marathon looks on the sea;And musing there an hour alone,I dreamd that Greece might yet be freeFor, standing on the Persians grave,I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky browWhich looks on sea-born Salamis;And ships, by thousands, lay below,And men in nations;---all were his!He counted them at break of day---And when the sun set, where were they? And where are they? and where art thou,My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now---The heroic bosom beats no more!And must thy lyre, so long divine,Degenerate into hands like mine? Tis something, in the dearth of fame,Though linkd among a fetterd race,To feel at least a patriots shame,Even as I sing, suffuse my face;For what is left the poet here?For Greeks a blush---for Greece a tear. Must we but weep oer days more blest?Must we but blush?---Our fathers bled.Earth! render back from out thy breastA remnant of our Spartan dead!Of the three hundred grant but three,To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still, and silent all?Ah! no; the voices of the deadSound like a distant torrents fall,And answer, Let one living head,But one arise,---we come, we come!Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain---in vain: strike other chords;Fill high the cup of Samian wine!Leave battles to the Turkish hordes,And shed the