Chapter 3

 Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!

Unlike our uses and our destinies¹.

Our ministering two angels look surprise

On one another, as they strike athwart

Their wings in passing.  Thou, bethink thee, art

A guest for queens to social pageantries,

With gages from a hundred brighter eyes

Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part

Of chief musician.  What hast thou to do

With looking from the lattice-lights at me,

A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through

The dark, and leaning up a cypress² tree?

The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,—

And Death must dig the level where these agree.

 

1 destinies   

命运( destiny的名词复数 )； 天命； 天数； 主宰事物的力量

参考例句：

• the destinies of nations 国家的命运
• The need for villagers to control their own destinies has prompted a new plan. 村民们想要掌握自己的命运，这促成了一项新的计划。

2 cypress   

n.柏树

参考例句：

• The towering pine and cypress trees defy frost and snow.松柏参天傲霜雪。
• The pine and the cypress remain green all the year round.苍松翠柏，常绿不凋。