丁尼生 《尤利西斯》 节选

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本杰明格雷厄姆八十岁生日爬梯上对儿孙们做了个演讲，演讲最后以这一段诗作结尾。这首诗是写老年的，不过我看了后觉得很受激励，就抄录下来以作自勉：
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'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

7 _. d0 w4 J% _: m8 b6 F0 }, p8 oPush off, and sitting well in order smite
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. q/ X4 U) ?6 s# W8 Z: d! Q7 q+ [The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
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To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

! i# Q% Y5 i2 v7 WOf all the western stars，until I die.
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+ }/ W0 T- ?' tIt may be that the gulfs will wash us down;

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

  `1 A. s( L# v' T9 `; aAnd see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
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) b8 |9 o$ |9 w: R" j, m3 f5 }We are not now that strength which in old days
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4 |' |4 ]# Y, [5 x& S5 RMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are

" W+ C- `( @) ]One equal temper of heroic hearts，

- e  t. S9 b9 F, }: {Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

- j% O6 N! W; w( j) }; s1 ATo strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
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