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英文诗歌赏析:Done With

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  Done With

  by Ann Stanford

  My house is torn down——

  Plaster sifting, the pillars broken,

  Beams jagged, the wall crushed by the bulldozer.

  The whole roof has fallen

  On the hall and the kitchen

  The bedrooms, the parlor.

  They are trampling the garden——

  My mother's lilac, my father's grapevine,

  The freesias, the jonquils, the grasses.

  Hot asphalt goes down

  Over the torn stems, and hardens.

  What will they do in springtime

  Those bulbs and stems groping upward

  That drown in earth under the paving,

  Thick with sap, pale in the dark

  As they try the unrolling of green.

  May they double themselves

  Pushing together up to the sunlight,

  May they break through the seal stretched above them

  Open and flower and cry we are living.

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