ON THE BALCONY

    IN front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost

        ribbon of rainbow;

     And between us and it, the thunder;

     And down below in the green wheat, the labourers

     Stand like dark stumps¹, still in the green wheat.

 

     You are near to me, and your naked feet in their

        sandals,

     And through the scent² of the balcony's naked

        timber

     I distinguish the scent of your hair: so now the

        limber

     Lightning falls from heaven.

 

     Adown the pale-green glacier³ river floats

     A dark boat through the gloom—and whither?

     The thunder roars. But still we have each other!

     The naked lightnings in the heavens dither

     And disappear—what have we but each other?

     The boat has gone.

 

       ICKING

1 stumps   

（被砍下的树的）树桩( stump的名词复数 )； 残肢； （板球三柱门的）柱； 残余部分

参考例句：

• Rocks and stumps supplied the place of chairs at the picnic. 野餐时石头和树桩都充当了椅子。
• If you don't stir your stumps, Tom, you'll be late for school again. 汤姆，如果你不快走，上学又要迟到了。

2 scent   

n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉

参考例句：

• The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
• The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。

3 glacier   

n.冰川，冰河

参考例句：

• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。