哦,水,水水很深,不过,在这个霍尔ow of the hill, Thou helenge well o'er which the long reeds lean, Here a stream and there a stream, And thou so still, between, Thro' thy coloured dream, Thro' the drownèd face Of this lone leafy place, Down, down, so deep and chill, I see the pebbles gleam! Ash-tree, ash-tree, Bending o'er the well, Why there thou bendest, Kind hearts can tell. 'Tis that the pool is deep, 'Tis that-a single leap, And the pool closes: And in the solitude Of this wild mountain wood, None, none, would hear her cry, From this bank where she stood To that peak in the sky Where the cloud dozes. Ash-tree, ash-tree, That art so sweet and good, If any creeping thing Among the summer games in the wild roses Fall from its airy swing, (While all its pigmy kind Watch from some imminent rose-leaf half uncurled)- I know thou hast it full in mind (While yet the drowning minim lives, And blots the shining water where it strives), To touch it with a finger soft and kind, As when the gentle sun, ere day is hot, Feels for a little shadow in a grot, And gives it to the shades behind the world. And oh! if some poor fool Should seek the fatal pool, Thine arms-ah, yes! I know For this thou watchest days, and months, and years, For this dost bend beside The lone and lorn well-side, The guardian angel of the doom below, Content if, once an age, thy helping hand May lift repentant madness to the land: Content to hear the cry Of living love from lips that would have died: To seem awhile endowed With all thy limbs did save, And in that voice they drew out of the grave, To feel thy dumb desire for once released aloud, And all thy muffled century Repaid in one wild hour of sobs, and smiles, and tears. Aye, aye, I envy thee, Pitiful ash-tree! Water, water-water deep and still, In the hollow of the hill, Water, water, well I wot, Thro' the weary hours, Well I wot thee lying there, As fair as false, as false as fair. The crows they fly o'er, The small birds flit about, The stream it ripples in, the stream it ripples out, But what eye ever knew A rinkle wimple thee? And what eye shall see A rinkle wimple thee Evermore? Thro' thy gauds and mocks, All thy thin enchantment thro'- The green delusion of thy bowers, The cold flush of thy feignèd flowers, All the treacherous state Of fair things small and great, That are and are not, Well I wot thee shining there, As fair as false, as false as fair. Thro' the liquid rocks, Thro' the watery trees, Thro' the grass that never grew, Thro' a face God never made, Thro' the frequent gain and loss Of the cold cold shine and shade, Thro' the subtle fern and moss, Thro' the humless, hiveless bees, Round the ghosts of buds asleep, Thro' the disembodied rose, Waving, waving in the deep, Where never wind blows, I look down, and see far down, In clear depths that do nothing hide, Green in green, and brown in brown, The long fish turn and glide! Ash-tree, ash-tree, Bending o'er the water- Ash-tree, ash-tree, Hadst thou a daughter? Ash-tree, ash-tree, let me draw near, Ash-tree, ash-tree, a word in thine ear! Thou art wizen and white, ash-tree; Other trees have gone on, Have gathered and grown, Have bourgeoned and borne: Thou hast wasted and worn. Thy knots are all eyes; Every knot a dumb eye, That has seen a sight And heard a cry. Thy leaves are dry: The summer has not gone by, But they're withered and dead, Like locks round a head That is bald with a secret sin, That is scorched by a hell within. Thy skin Is withered and wan, Like a guilty man: It was thin, Aye, silken and thin, It is houghed And ploughed, Like a murderer's skin. Thou hast no shoots nor wands, All thy arms turn to the deep, All thy twigs are crooked, Twined and twisted, Fingered and fisted, Like one who had looked On wringing hands 'Till his hands were wrung in his sleep. Pardon my doubt of thee, What is this In the very groove Of thy right arm? There is not a snake So yellow and red, There is not a toad So sappy and dread! It doth not move, It doth not hiss- Ash-tree-for God's sake- Hast thou known What hath not been said And the summer sun Cannot keep it warm, And the living wood Cannot shut it down! And it grows out of thee And will be told, Bloody as blood, And yellow as gold! Ash-tree, ash-tree, That once wert so green! Ash-tree, ash-tree! What hast thou seen? Was I a mother-nay or aye? Am I childless-aye nor nay? Ash-tree, ash-tree, Bending