经典诗歌欣赏：A Roxbury Garden

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　　Hoops

　　Blue and pink sashes,

　　Criss-cross shoes,

　　Minna and Stella run out into the garden

学习啦在线学习网 　　To play at hoop.

　　Up and down the garden-paths they race,

　　In the yellow sunshine,

　　Each with a big round hoop

　　White as a stripped willow-wand.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Round and round turn the hoops,

　　Their diamond whiteness cleaving the yellow sunshine.

学习啦在线学习网 　　The gravel crunches and squeaks beneath them,

学习啦在线学习网 　　And a large pebble springs them into the air

学习啦在线学习网 　　To go whirling for a foot or two

学习啦在线学习网 　　Before they touch the earth again

　　In a series of little jumps.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Spring, Hoops!

　　Spit out a shower of blue and white brightness.

学习啦在线学习网 　　The little criss-cross shoes twinkle behind you,

学习啦在线学习网 　　The pink and blue sashes flutter like flags,

　　The hoop-sticks are ready to beat you.

　　Turn, turn, Hoops! In the yellow sunshine.

　　Turn your stripped willow whiteness

　　Along the smooth paths.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Stella sings:

学习啦在线学习网 　　"Round and round, rolls my hoop,

　　Scarcely touching the ground,

　　With a swoop,

　　And a bound,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Round and round.

　　With a bumpety, crunching, scattering sound,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Down the garden it flies;

学习啦在线学习网 　　In our eyes

学习啦在线学习网 　　The sun lies.

学习啦在线学习网 　　See it spin

学习啦在线学习网 　　Out and in;

学习啦在线学习网 　　Through the paths it goes whirling,

　　About the beds curling.

　　Sway now to the loop,

　　Faster, faster, my hoop.

　　Round you come,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Up you come,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Quick and straight as before.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Run, run, my hoop, run,

　　Away from the sun."

　　And the great hoop bounds along the path,

　　Leaping into the wind-bright air.

　　Minna sings:

学习啦在线学习网 　　"Turn, hoop,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Burn hoop,

　　Twist and twine

　　Hoop of mine.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Flash along,

　　Leap along,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Right at the sun.

　　Run, hoop, run.

　　Faster and faster,

　　Whirl, twirl.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Wheel like fire,

　　And spin like glass;

　　Fire's no whiter

　　Glass is no brighter.

　　Dance,

　　Prance,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Over and over,

学习啦在线学习网 　　About and about,

　　With the top of you under,

　　And the bottom at top,

　　But never a stop.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Turn about, hoop, to the tap of my stick,

　　I follow behind you

　　To touch and remind you.

　　Burn and glitter, so white and quick,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Round and round, to the tap of a stick."

学习啦在线学习网 　　The hoop flies along between the flower-beds,

　　Swaying the flowers with the wind of its passing.

　　Beside the foxglove-border roll the hoops,

　　And the little pink and white bells shake and jingle

学习啦在线学习网 　　Up and down their tall spires;

　　They roll under the snow-ball bush,

　　And the ground behind them is strewn with white petals;

　　They swirl round a corner,

　　And jar a bee out of a Canterbury bell;

　　They cast their shadows for an instant

学习啦在线学习网 　　Over a bed of pansies,

　　Catch against the spurs of a columbine,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Jostle the quietness from a cluster of monk's-hood.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Pat! Pat! behind them come the little criss-cross shoes,

　　And the blue and pink sashes stream out in flappings of colour.

　　Stella sings:

　　"Hoop, hoop,

　　Roll along,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Faster bowl along,

　　Hoop.

　　Slow, to the turning,

　　Now go! -- Go!

　　Quick!

学习啦在线学习网 　　Here's the stick.

　　Rat-a-tap-tap it,

　　Pat it, flap it.

　　Fly like a bird or a yellow-backed bee,

　　See how soon you can reach that tree.

　　Here is a path that is perfectly straight.

　　Roll along, hoop, or we shall be late."

学习啦在线学习网 　　Minna sings:

学习啦在线学习网 　　"Trip about, slip about, whip about

　　Hoop.

　　Wheel like a top at its quickest spin,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Then, dear hoop, we shall surely win.

学习啦在线学习网 　　First to the greenhouse and then to the wall

　　Circle and circle,

　　And let the wind push you,

　　Poke you,

　　Brush you,

　　And not let you fall.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Whirring you round like a wreath of mist.

　　Hoopety hoop,

　　Twist,

　　Twist."

　　Tap! Tap! go the hoop-sticks,

学习啦在线学习网 　　And the hoops bowl along under a grape arbour.

　　For an instant their willow whiteness is green,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Pale white-green.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Then they are out in the sunshine,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Leaving the half-formed grape clusters

学习啦在线学习网 　　A-tremble under their big leaves.

　　"I will beat you, Minna," cries Stella,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Hitting her hoop smartly with her stick.

　　"Stella, Stella, we are winning," calls Minna,

　　As her hoop curves round a bed of clove-pinks.

学习啦在线学习网 　　A humming-bird whizzes past Stella's ear,

　　And two or three yellow-and-black butterflies

学习啦在线学习网 　　Flutter, startled, out of a pillar rose.

　　Round and round race the little girls

学习啦在线学习网 　　After their great white hoops.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Suddenly Minna stops.

　　Her hoop wavers an instant,

学习啦在线学习网 　　But she catches it up on her stick.

　　"Listen, Stella!"

　　Both the little girls are listening;

　　And the scents of the garden rise up quietly about them.

　　"It's the chaise! It's Father!

　　Perhaps he's brought us a book from Boston."

　　Twinkle, twinkle, the little criss-cross shoes

学习啦在线学习网 　　Up the garden path.

学习啦在线学习网 　　Blue -- pink -- an instant, against the syringa hedge.

　　But the hoops, white as stripped willow-wands,

学习啦在线学习网 　　Lie in the grass,

　　And the grasshoppers jump back and forth

　　Over them.