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,
　　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,
　　Haunted our happy minds; must thou withhold
" \: M' J$ `+ Z1 m* f　　Thy presence from this over-busy world,
　　And bearing silence with thee disengage
　　Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods
' ]" _5 q- ^. x; d( N$ v　　Alone can cherish thee, alone possess
+ B& s% U5 ?  T0 N' t/ [) r8 s　　Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime:
　　Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods
　　That sole condition of all loveliness,
0 k7 @7 P8 O4 c# _8 y　　The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.
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