THE LADY OF ALL OUR DREAMS

 "In JOHN CHARTERIS appeared a man with an inborn¹ sense of the supreme² interest and the overwhelming emotional and spiritual relevancy of human life as it is actually and obscurely lived; a man with unmistakable creative impulses and potentialities; a man who, had he lived in a more mature and less self-deluding community—a community that did not so rigorously confine its interest in facts to business, and limit its demands upon art to the supplying of illusions—might humbly³ and patiently have schooled his gifts to the service of his vision.… As it was, he accepted defeat and compromised half-heartedly with commercialism."

 

 

And men unborn will read of Heloise,

        And Ruth, and Rosamond, and Semele,

        When none remembers your name's melody

Or rhymes your name, enregistered with these.

 

And will my name wake moods as amorous⁴

        As that of Abelard or Launcelot

Arouses? be recalled when Pyramus

        And Tristram are unrhymed of and forgot?—

Time's laughter answers, who accords to us

        More gracious fields, wherein we harvest—what?

 

JOHN CHARTERIS. Torrismond's Envoi, in Ashtaroth's Lackey⁵.

1 inborn   

adj.天生的，生来的，先天的

参考例句：

• He is a man with an inborn love of joke.他是一个生来就喜欢开玩笑的人。
• He had an inborn talent for languages.他有语言天分。

2 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

3 humbly   

adv. 恭顺地，谦卑地

参考例句：

• We humbly beg Your Majesty to show mercy. 我们恳请陛下发发慈悲。
• "You must be right, Sir,'said John humbly. “你一定是对的，先生，”约翰恭顺地说道。

4 amorous   

adj.多情的；有关爱情的

参考例句：

• They exchanged amorous glances and clearly made known their passions.二人眉来眼去，以目传情。
• She gave him an amorous look.她脉脉含情的看他一眼。

5 lackey   

n.侍从；跟班

参考例句：

• I'm not staying as a paid lackey to act as your yes-man.我不要再做拿钱任你使唤的应声虫。
• Who would have thought that Fredo would become a lackey of women?谁能料到弗烈特竟堕落成女人脚下的哈叭狗？