英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme

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英文经典诗歌：Portrait d'Une Femme
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　　Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
　　London has swept about you this score years
- O$ u" c: L& }) p, S　　And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
( [+ A3 c( @7 C3 j/ x1 f8 ^1 M　　Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
　　Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.
　　Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else.
1 _% `  }+ j" W! w- A; b! ]# v　　You have been second always. Tragical?
　　No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
$ ]0 j# a) V( Y7 G4 u" Q　　One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
2 k( l/ H  w$ j$ C& C　　One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
' H( N* ~. B( B( M7 e　　Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
3 h1 J/ E( ^' }　　Hours, where something might have floated up.
　　And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
　　You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
　　And takes strange gain away:
　　Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;
　　Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,
* T5 w7 h3 F* \# C. c7 v　　Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
　　That might prove useful and yet never proves,
　　That never fits a corner or shows use,
+ d4 L) [) ]0 T& [　　Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
; z3 \. a0 a& l) X/ _8 _, y( E　　The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
; E8 u4 k# c, d# s# a　　Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
　　These are your riches, your great store; and yet
　　For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
" a9 ?1 z* W" B8 t6 i# Z　　Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
　　In the slow float of differing light and deep,
8 e) a5 [8 m4 @4 x. S　　No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
　　Nothing that's quite your own.
　　Yet this is you.
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