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
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The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

5 y  |4 V( {& X+ n4 G0 c8 mOf all the western stars，until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
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And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

5 f3 O8 v1 A" {; B; cThough much is taken, much abides; and though

4 R+ I. K" d$ I8 S! Y! @We are not now that strength which in old days
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are

6 n, R* Q3 p8 j* t+ r. S# g/ jOne equal temper of heroic hearts，
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Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

: p8 ~" m1 m! [% qTo strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.
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