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第6章 Casting and Gathering

for Ted Hughes

Years and years ago, these sounds took sides:

On the left bank, a green silk tapered cast

Went whispering through the air, saying hush

And lush, entirely free, no matter whether

It swished above the hayfield or the river.

On the right bank, like a speeded-up corncrake,

A sharp ratcheting went on and on

Cutting across the stillness as another

Fisherman gathered line-lengths off his reel.

I am still standing there, awake and dreamy,

I have grown older and can see them both

Moving their arms and rods, working away,

Each one absorbed, proofed by the sounds he's making.

One sound is saying, 'You are not worth tuppence,

But neither is anybody. Watch it! Be severe.'

The other says, 'Go with it! Give and swerve.

You are everything you feel beside the river.'

I love hushed air. I trust contrariness.

Years and years go past and I do not move

For I see that when one man casts, the other gathers

And then vice versa, without changing sides.

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