经典英文短诗精选：The Poet

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经典英文短诗精选：The Poet　　What instinct forces man to journey on,
　　Urged by a longing blind but dominant!
　　Nothing he sees can hold him, nothing daunt
4 r4 _6 ]* [( D5 v　　His never failing eagerness. The sun
7 l4 L+ n0 Z7 E% k- {, \( p% x7 k- k　　Setting in splendour every night has won
　　His vassalage; those towers flamboyant
$ G6 U; E$ U5 D8 h　　Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt
% }& ^, |6 p: @$ K8 M" C　　His daylight wanderings. Forever done
　　With simple joys and quiet happiness
　　He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
5 W, s1 C$ _4 }" v. V　　Though faint with weariness he must possess
　　Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;
　　He spurns life's human friendships to profess
; w# F5 _* h9 w2 m　　Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy.
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