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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0 }$ q/ {; s1 l% j, u$ ZTo sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
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) E% `& H) f$ ?# T% h% D* WOf 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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& Y6 N; W& ^+ S: d3 K! j( AIt may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
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5 v7 r. N8 N) R8 f% k" ]1 gAnd see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

# S2 S( m- Q5 L2 B% L  K4 n$ @2 `- cThough much is taken, much abides; and though

0 d  f: ~+ M, a  z. x* kWe are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are
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9 r2 O% k8 c1 B, w1 r- Z3 T# r: FOne equal temper of heroic hearts，
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& ~! ?; e& ~' s0 ]Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

& g, g" Q* w% L' GTo strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.