丁尼生 《尤利西斯》 节选

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本杰明格雷厄姆八十岁生日爬梯上对儿孙们做了个演讲，演讲最后以这一段诗作结尾。这首诗是写老年的，不过我看了后觉得很受激励，就抄录下来以作自勉：

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

- o9 o: b' f6 D) VTo sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars，until I die.
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It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

/ N/ l; f8 o# d; d0 ZAnd see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
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9 v7 o! _# Q- Y+ _* ~Though much is taken, much abides; and though

& _0 p0 P3 A  ^2 F: R4 ~9 i) Y1 |We are not now that strength which in old days
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6 g; E  c2 A/ u0 m/ g1 I; i3 w# HMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are
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/ R$ V* d- H# V5 v" V& u; b5 @. {One equal temper of heroic hearts，
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Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
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To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
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