来源: 仲夏百合 于 2009-10-14 18:46:52
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The Ivy Ode: “Between the Chances”
Written by David Griswold (Yale Class 2007)
The gate swings open, and minutes pass,
Someone cracks a joke – the last
Heard as a student.
Four years ago, this stage was far.
Now could we get there from where we are –
Well, who wouldn’t?
Bustling like bees, rallied into ranks,
Arranged like sinners giving thanks,
The time arrives,
And down the well-worn rows we march
To shake the hands, and disembark
Into our real lives.
The books we perused are snug in bed,
What angels watched us overhead
Extend their contracts,
While parents bend a wave of grief
Beneath a feeling of relief –
They can relax.
As we, in gothic, graying towers,
Gilded libraries, where we spent hours
Rehearsing facts,
Have borrowed knowledge of a kind
The ready heart can only find
When it reacts
To difference, and to love’s full
Enchantment. Too often, thoughts are dull
Or un-ignited
Without their better counterpart:
The art of making, made an art
Itself, unrequited
Until it is given back.
We are our books, barely a crack
Along the seams –
Their wisdom here, freshly imparted,
Is thrown to depths perpetually charted
Beyond the sun’s beams.
It falls to us, now graduated
To share the worlds we’ve contemplated,
To brandish hope;
To shield the war-sick, weary masses,
And separate the volatile gases
Before they elope.
It falls to us to be the strong,
To mark all those who worship wrong
Yet tempting causes,
To marshal out our erudition
Yet always keen to our position,
And our many flaws.
This task we have, these hearts to mend,
They are the same our fathers lend
From age to age:
The desperate manors, plush and futile,
The forges of the bored and brutal
Company wage.
Let us not marry our intent
To keep up the establishment
Of vain pursuits.
Remember what has meant the most,
Give others a chance, and do not boast,
Be kind in disputes.
And always, always, love with true
And fervent love. None may undo
What has been done.
A summer’s night cannot be made
Again – none uncode time’s blockade.
There is only one.
So did you gather all you wanted?
From classes, friends, professors vaunted
Above the gods?
The captive seeds that in us churn
Now to the earth must be returned –
Are there more words
You wish you had distributed?
Or times that, uninhibited,
You would have changed?
Collect them all, savor the lost
Chances, the freedoms that were glossed
Over, estranged
Embraces – pack them up for good,
And do not do what others would
Tell you is best.
Follow the distant drum that speaks
Of light and truth, and life that seeks
A surer rest.
The clocks are whirring with a fury,
The streets are lined with those who hurry
With heads averted.
The classroom doors to us now close,
Our busy hands are in repose,
Though disconcerted.
The hidden walkways known to us
Now open to those curious
Enough to look.
They pass along a legacy,
Our prints of anonymity
In every nook.
The stories of our hands explain
A common bond that must remain,
Though we are gone –
We are the grass, we are the rooms,
The silent marching that resumes
Its slow, proud song.
《机缘之间》中文版来源: 仲夏百合 于 2009-10-15 19:38:00
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Song: Graduation (Friends Forever)
Artist: Vitamin C
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real blue
Stay at home talking on the telephone
And we would get so excited and we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels
[1]
As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever
So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
I keep, keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels
[Repeat 1]
La, la, la, la:
Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la:
We will still be friends forever
Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us around?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
[Repeat 1 (3x)]
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歌曲：栀子花开
演唱：何炅
栀子花开 如此可爱
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