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
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To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

! C7 W( {. V5 Y% A: E+ B, |$ QOf all the western stars，until I die.

6 a  F. h2 Y8 z# kIt may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
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' B- a- C6 y1 q. Q* ~And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
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Though much is taken, much abides; and though
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; u3 F4 }' ?# {3 }" mWe are not now that strength which in old days

  I0 ~9 e1 _2 zMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are
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. \& U0 k. z+ `4 IOne equal temper of heroic hearts，

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
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: c) g, G+ t& T6 HTo strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.