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：

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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5 u9 }) L/ a; s- CPush off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
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6 Z* x, w- f+ x- H3 e6 @To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

. a3 C" J9 L; j1 eOf all the western stars，until I die.
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  {( z" ]" B6 a/ d' ?5 X3 R* GIt may be that the gulfs will wash us down;

, F' L0 O. ~1 X2 E- i' j8 T1 iIt may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
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, B! Q  U) d  j" m& UAnd see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
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We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are
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One equal temper of heroic hearts，

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.