Grass of Parnassus 帕那色斯草

Grass of Parnassus 1 Grass of Parnassus by Andrew Lang 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org Grass of Parnassus 2 DEEDS OF MEN [Greek text which cannot be reproduced]. To Colonel Ian Hamilton. To you, who know the face of war, You, that for England wander far, You that have seen the Ghazis fly From English lads not sworn to die, You that have lain where, deadly chill, The mist crept o'er the Shameful Hill, You that have conquered, mile by mile, The currents of unfriendly Nile, And cheered the march, and eased the strain When Politics made valour vain, Ian, to you, from banks of Ken, We send our lays of Englishmen! SEEKERS FOR A CITY. "Believe me, if that blissful, that beautiful place, were set on a hill visible to all the world, I should long ago have journeyed thither. . . But the number and variety of the ways! For you know, THERE IS BUT ONE ROAD THAT LEADS TO CORINTH." HERMOTIMUS (Mr Pater's Version). "The Poet says, DEAR CITY OF CECROPS, and wilt thou not say, DEAR CITY OF ZEUS?" M. ANTONINUS. "To Corinth leads one road," you say: Is there a Corinth, or a way? Each bland or blatant preacher hath His painful or his primrose pat......