Through Loving Eyes

 LIKE a careless child in the drifts¹ it stood

Against the darkness of the wood,

Even the path was not cut through

Up to the door it led you to.

Beauty untarnished, but never a sound

Save for the whispering trees around.

Its shining eyes on the cold world shone

Warm and bright from its snowy comb.

Cheer was the word the blue fume² wrote

As it cleared itself from the chimney’s throat.

The drifts that lay on the tent like sheds³

Were like the covers of untouched beds.

A great white garment of snow and frost

Was laid on the fence, but the hedge⁴ was lost.

A-while away the home garden park

Divides itself from the woods soft dark.

Dear God I said, you had meant to please

When giving man such gifts as these.

 

1 drifts   

漂流物( drift的名词复数 )； 趋势； 流向； 水流

参考例句：

• He has no ambition or aim in his life.He only drifts along. 他生活中没有雄心或目标，只能随波逐流，混日子。
• The cars were snowed under by drifts. 车辆被积雪覆盖了。

2 fume   

n.(usu pl.)(浓烈或难闻的)烟，气，汽

参考例句：

• The pressure of fume in chimney increases slowly from top to bottom.烟道内压力自上而下逐渐增加，底层住户的排烟最为不利。
• Your harsh words put her in a fume.你那些难听的话使她生气了。

3 sheds   

n.棚，库( shed的名词复数 )v.流出( shed的第三人称单数 )；流下；蜕皮；树叶脱落

参考例句：

• The firemen pulled down some nearby sheds to stop the fire spreading. 消防队员们把附近的一些棚子拉倒，不让火势蔓延。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The present sheds a backward light on the world's previous processes. 现在给我们以启迪，使我们了解过去世界的种种进程。 来自哲学部分

4 hedge   

n.树篱；障碍物；vt.用篱笆围；vi.避免直接回答

参考例句：

• The gardener trimmed the hedge.那位园林工人修剪了树篱。
• He squeezed through a gap in the hedge.他从树篱的缺口处挤过去。