The Rim of Sky,the Rim of Sky!
Where Poetic Edda praised 'n' sung,
Where grew the arts of Shout and Fight,
Where Snow Towerrose, and Mankind sprung!
Eternal winter roaring on,
But all, except their Frost, is gone.
The Nordic and Draconic lore,
The Scourge of Shor, the Breath of Kyne,
Have conquered kingdoms you ignored:
Their rightful throne alone is poor
In might which rules over wider lands
Than your Sires' "Junaar se Kogaan."
The mountains look on High Hrothgar ---
And High Hrothgar looks on the Sky;
And musing there with mourning heart,
I dreamed Skyrim might still could cry;
For glancing through the Wound of Time,
I still recall the Storm of Prime.
Alduin sate on the rocky brow
Which looks o'er sky-born Bromjunaar;
And slaves, by millions, lay below,
And dragons around; --- all hail Ald!
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 plain
The nordic lay is tuneless now ---
The nordic lips unleash no flame!
And must thy Tongue, so long divine,
Be redeem'd by the pagan Tribe?
'T is something, in the dearth of Fame,
Though linked among a fettered race,
To feel at least a warrior's shame,
Even as I sing, suffuse my face;
For what is left a poet here?
For Nord a sigh --- for Nord a tear.
Must we but weep o'er days more blest?
Must we but blush? --- Our fathers bled.
Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Atmor'n dead!
Of the fire hundred grant but ten,
To make a new Saarthal's revenge!
What, silent still? and silent all?
Ah! no; --- the voices of the dead
Sound like a distant torrent's fall,
And answer, "Let one living head,
But one arise, --- we come, we come! "
'T is but the living who are dumb.
In vain -- in vain: strike other chords;
Fill high the cup with Alto wine!
Leave battles to the Orcish hordes,
And shed the blood of Jazbay's vine!
Hark! Rising to the ignoble call ---
How answers each bold Bacchanal!
You have the Nordic dance as yet,
Where is the Nordic phalanx gone?
Of two such lessons, why forget
The noblier and manlier one?
You have the words Ysgramor gave ---
Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Fill high the bowl with Alto wine!
We will not think of themes like these!
It made Odahviing's voice divine:
He served --- but served Lord Alduin ---
A Dragon; but our masters then
Were still, at least, our skyborn-kin.
The Dragon of the Northern Nirn
Was Freedom's best and bravest friend;
That dragon was Grey Wind Ysmir!
Oh! That the present hour would lend
Another despot of the kind!
Such chains as his were sure to bind.
Fill high the bowl with Alto wine!
On Solstheim Isle, and Windhelm's shore,
Exists the remnant of a line
Such as the Nordic mothers bore;
And there, perhaps, such seed is sown,
The old Atmoran blood might own.
Trust not for freedom to Empire ---
They have a king who buys and sells;
By native faith, and native ire,
The only hope of courage dwells;
But Altm'ri force, and Elvish fraud,
Would break your shield, however broad.
Fill high the bowl with Alto wine!
Our virgins dance beneath the shade ---
I see their glorious blue eyes shine;
But gazing on each glowing maid,
My own the burning tear-drop laves,
To think such breasts must suckle slaves.
Place me on the Throat of the World,
Where nothing, save the storms and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs swirl;
There, dov-like, let me shout and die;
A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine ---
Dash down yon cup of Alto wine!
刚才在6l发的有点排版错误,自己删掉了~~~
2013年04月02日 15点04分
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(震惊)
好长!!这又是哪一首。。。。
2013年04月02日 15点04分
回复 智障超人 :拜伦的《唐璜》里的一段,曾经被新文化运动的一些人单独节选出来取名“哀希腊”~~~
2013年04月02日 15点04分
回复 Nordendrache :
(苦逼)
我们要唱歌
2013年04月02日 15点04分
回复 智障超人 :
2013年04月02日 15点04分