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.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite
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The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

& f, }1 A/ y- c# qTo sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
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Of all the western stars，until I die.

/ {! M8 m6 e3 M9 CIt may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
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And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
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4 a! }: L& ~  y  w8 ?Though much is taken, much abides; and though

" {" x: Y! v; a! lWe are not now that strength which in old days
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are

One equal temper of heroic hearts，

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