《The Prisoner》歌词

[00:00:00] The Prisoner (囚徒) - Emily Bronte

[00:00:05] Still let my tyrants know I am not doomed to wear

[00:00:09] Year after year in gloom and desolate despair

[00:00:14] A messenger of hope comes every night to me

[00:00:18] And offers for short life eternal liberty

[00:00:22] He comes with western winds with evening's wandering airs

[00:00:27] With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars

[00:00:32] Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire

[00:00:38] And visions rise and change that kill me with desire

[00:00:44] Desire for nothing known in my maturer years

[00:00:48] When joy grew mad with awe at counting future tears

[00:00:53] When if my spirit's sky was full of flashes warm

[00:00:58] I knew not whence they came from sun or thunderstorm

[00:01:03] But first a hush of peace a soundless calm descends

[00:01:11] The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends

[00:01:16] Mute music soothes my breast unuttered harmony

[00:01:20] That I could never dream till earth was lost to me

[00:01:25] Then dawns the invisible the unseen its truth reveals

[00:01:30] My outward sense is gone my inward essence feels

[00:01:34] It's wings are almost free it's home it's harbour found

[00:01:39] Measuring the gulf it stoops and dares the final bound

[00:01:44] O dreadful is the check intense the agony

[00:01:49] When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see

[00:01:53] When the pulse begins to throb the brain to think again

[00:01:57] The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain

[00:02:03] Yet I would lose no sting would wish no torture less

[00:02:08] The more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless

[00:02:13] And robed in fires of hell or bright with heavenly shine

[00:02:18] If it but herald death the vision is divine