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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Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
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To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
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Of all the western stars，until I die.
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# f! y5 [/ r6 c7 N0 e: _7 ?) b+ wIt may be that the gulfs will wash us down;

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
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" `5 m1 G- K' R8 ^) u9 dAnd see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
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  ~+ J- A: E+ f( N: j) P- sThough much is taken, much abides; and though
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; o" C6 [: t4 G+ F, z0 b- iWe 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，

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
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To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.