《In The Willow Shade》歌词

[00:00:00] In The Willow Shade - Ghizela Rowe

[00:00:00] In The Willow Shade by Christina Georgina Rossetti

[00:00:05] I sat beneath a willow tree

[00:00:06] Where water falls and calls;

[00:00:08] While fancies upon fancies solaced me

[00:00:11] Some true and some were false

[00:00:14] Who set their heart upon a hope

[00:00:15] That never comes to pass

[00:00:17] Droop in the end like fading heliotrope

[00:00:20] The sun's wan looking-glass

[00:00:23] Who set their will upon a whim

[00:00:25] Clung to through good and ill

[00:00:27] Are wrecked alike whether they sink or swim

[00:00:30] Or hit or miss their will

[00:00:32] All things are vain that wax and wane

[00:00:35] For which we waste our breath;

[00:00:37] Love only doth not wane and is not vain

[00:00:40] Love only outlives death

[00:00:43] A singing lark rose toward the sky

[00:00:46] Circling he sang amain;

[00:00:48] He sang a speck scarce visible sky-high

[00:00:52] And then he sank again

[00:00:54] A second like a sunlit spark

[00:00:56] Flashed singing up his track;

[00:00:59] But never overtook that foremost lark

[00:01:02] And songless fluttered back

[00:01:04] A hovering melody of birds

[00:01:06] Haunted the air above;

[00:01:08] They clearly sang contentment without words

[00:01:11] And youth and joy and love

[00:01:13] O silvery weeping willow tree

[00:01:16] With all leaves shivering

[00:01:18] Have you no purpose but to shadow me

[00:01:20] Beside this rippled spring

[00:01:23] On this first fleeting day of Spring

[00:01:25] For Winter is gone by

[00:01:27] And every bird on every quivering wing

[00:01:29] Floats in a sunny sky;

[00:01:31] On this first Summer-like soft day

[00:01:34] While sunshine steeps the air

[00:01:36] And every cloud has gat itself away

[00:01:39] And birds sing everywhere

[00:01:41] Have you no purpose in the world

[00:01:43] But thus to shadow me

[00:01:45] With all your tender drooping twigs unfurled

[00:01:48] O weeping willow tree

[00:01:51] With all your tremulous leaves outspread

[00:01:54] Betwixt me and the sun

[00:01:56] While here I loiter on a mossy bed

[00:01:58] With half my work undone;

[00:02:01] My work undone that should be done

[00:02:03] At once with all my might;

[00:02:05] For after the long day and lingering sun

[00:02:08] Comes the unworking night

[00:02:10] This day is lapsing on its way

[00:02:13] Is lapsing out of sight;

[00:02:14] And after all the chances of the day

[00:02:17] Comes the resourceless night

[00:02:19] The weeping willow shook its head

[00:02:21] And stretched its shadow long;

[00:02:23] The west grew crimson the sun smoldered red

[00:02:27] The birds forbore a song

[00:02:29] Slow wind sighed through the willow leaves

[00:02:32] The ripple made a moan

[00:02:33] The world drooped murmuring like a thing that grieves;

[00:02:37] And then I felt alone

[00:02:39] I rose to go and felt the chill

[00:02:42] And shivered as I went;

[00:02:43] Yet shivering wondered and I wonder still

[00:02:46] What more that willow meant;

[00:02:49] That silvery weeping willow tree

[00:02:52] With all leaves shivering

[00:02:54] Which spent one long day overshadowing me

[00:02:57] Beside a spring in Spring