第三届“求是杯”国际诗歌创作与翻译大赛英语诗歌原文.pdfVIP

英语诗歌原文 1.Constancy Dennis Haskell I stared out on the midnight streets of Canberra, so still they looked frozen in time. The nearby clock tower was stuck at a quarter to eight, early even by my blood and bones like a wish that we would never age, from this instant. Canberra: it’s what Australians like to say about it – out of time and stuck in a world of no human’s making. To be alive is to be moving away from where we are, even in sleep. And I thought of you, as I always do, the better part of me, far and yet near,