优美英文小诗精选：Leisure

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优美英文小诗精选：Leisure　　Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age,
& J) N# G1 |6 O! H7 C2 Z　　When hours were long and days sufficed to hold
　　Wide-eyed delights and pleasures uncontrolled
　　By shortening moments, when no gaunt presage
　　Of undone duties, modern heritage,
, [+ F2 v5 H+ [& I　　Haunted our happy minds; must thou withhold
　　Thy presence from this over-busy world,
　　And bearing silence with thee disengage
　　Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods
　　Alone can cherish thee, alone possess
) K, G2 v5 h7 A$ y# H6 k4 @% d　　Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime:
9 M; O, y% y# w' C, t- i　　Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods
  }  I0 W0 j! S, C3 Z2 W2 `$ n, Z7 l　　That sole condition of all loveliness,
　　The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.