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,
7 k1 |* Q. W8 a- n　　Urged by a longing blind but dominant!
　　Nothing he sees can hold him, nothing daunt
0 |, U9 ~, {, ?% D　　His never failing eagerness. The sun
4 R- P; v* k3 ~" Q6 l1 W9 \" L' ?　　Setting in splendour every night has won
　　His vassalage; those towers flamboyant
　　Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt
　　His daylight wanderings. Forever done
　　With simple joys and quiet happiness
# J, T% ^* V  Q4 H9 Y) R　　He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
　　Though faint with weariness he must possess
! `" m- |; E6 B5 g6 {　　Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;
　　He spurns life's human friendships to profess
　　Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy.
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