音弦·语丝

As I Walked Out One Evening
W. H. Auden
 
As I walked out one evening
 Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
 Were fields of harvest wheat.
And down by the brimming river
 I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
 "Love has no ending.
 
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
 Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
 And the salmon sing in the street,
 
"I'll love you till the ocean
 Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
 Like geese about the sky.
 
"The years shall run like rabbits,
 For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
 And the first love of the world."
But all the clocks in the city
 Began to whirr and chime:
"O let not Time deceive you,
 You cannot conquer Time.
 
"In the burrows of the Nightmare
 Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
 And coughs when you would kiss.
 
"In headaches and in worry
 Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
 To-morrow or to-day.
 
"Into many a green valley
 Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
 And the diver's brilliant bow.
 
"O plunge your hands in water,
 Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
 And wonder what you've missed.
 
"The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
 The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
 A lane to the land of the dead.
 
"Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
 And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
 And Jill goes down on her back.
 
"O look, look in the mirror,
 O look in your distress;
Life remains a blessing
 Although you cannot bless.
 
"O stand, stand at the window
 As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
 With your crooked heart."
 
It was late, late in the evening,
 The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
 And the deep river ran on.
 
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Daydream delusion.
Limousine Eyelash
Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet cakes and milkshakes
I am a delusioned angel
I am a fantasy parade.
I want you to know what I think.
Don't want you to guess anymore.
You have no idea where I came from.
We have no idea where we're going.
Launched in life.
Like branches in the river.
Flowing downstream.
Caught in the current.
I'll carry you. You'll carry me.
That's how it could be.
Don't you know me
Don't you know me by now.