FROHNLEICHNAM

    You have come your way, I have come my way;

     You have stepped across your people, carelessly,

        hurting them all;

     I have stepped across my people, and hurt them

        in spite of my care.

 

     But steadily¹, surely, and notwithstanding

     We have come our ways and met at last

     Here in this upper room.

 

     Here the balcony

     Overhangs the street where the bullock-wagons

        slowly

     Go by with their loads of green and silver birch-

        trees

     For the feast of Corpus Christi.

 

     Here from the balcony

     We look over the growing wheat, where the jade-

        green river

     Goes between the pine-woods,

     Over and beyond to where the many mountains

     Stand in their blueness, flashing with snow and the

        morning.

 

     I have done; a quiver of exultation² goes through

        me, like the first

     Breeze of the morning through a narrow white

        birch.

     You glow at last like the mountain tops when they

        catch

     Day and make magic in heaven.

 

     At last I can throw away world without end, and

        meet you

     Unsheathed and naked and narrow and white;

     At last you can throw immortality³ off, and I see you

     Glistening with all the moment and all your

        beauty.

 

     Shameless and callous⁴ I love you;

     Out of indifference⁵ I love you;

     Out of mockery we dance together,

     Out of the sunshine into the shadow,

     Passing across the shadow into the sunlight,

     Out of sunlight to shadow.

 

     As we dance

     Your eyes take all of me in as a communication;

     As we dance

     I see you, ah, in full!

     Only to dance together in triumph of being together

     Two white ones, sharp, vindicated⁶,

     Shining and touching⁷,

     Is heaven of our own, sheer with repudiation⁸.

1 steadily   

adv.稳定地；不变地；持续地

参考例句：

• The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
• Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。

2 exultation   

n.狂喜，得意

参考例句：

• It made him catch his breath, it lit his face with exultation. 听了这个名字，他屏住呼吸，乐得脸上放光。
• He could get up no exultation that was really worthy the name. 他一点都激动不起来。

3 immortality   

n.不死，不朽

参考例句：

• belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
• It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。

4 callous   

adj.无情的，冷淡的，硬结的，起老茧的

参考例句：

• He is callous about the safety of his workers.他对他工人的安全毫不关心。
• She was selfish,arrogant and often callous.她自私傲慢，而且往往冷酷无情。

5 indifference   

n.不感兴趣，不关心，冷淡，不在乎

参考例句：

• I was disappointed by his indifference more than somewhat.他的漠不关心使我很失望。
• He feigned indifference to criticism of his work.他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。

6 vindicated   

v.澄清（某人/某事物）受到的责难或嫌疑( vindicate的过去式和过去分词 )；表明或证明（所争辩的事物）属实、正当、有效等；维护

参考例句：

• I have every confidence that this decision will be fully vindicated. 我完全相信这一决定的正确性将得到充分证明。
• Subsequent events vindicated the policy. 后来的事实证明那政策是对的。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

8 repudiation   

n.拒绝；否认；断绝关系；抛弃

参考例句：

• Datas non-repudiation is very important in the secure communication. 在安全数据的通讯中，数据发送和接收的非否认十分重要。 来自互联网
• There are some goals of Certified E-mail Protocol: confidentiality non-repudiation and fairness. 挂号电子邮件协议需要具备保密性、不可否认性及公平性。 来自互联网