晨读英文经典诗歌：Leisure

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晨读英文经典诗歌：Leisure

3 M4 f% N9 C' S" X7 d　　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
　　Thy presence from this over-busy world,
2 o0 G3 b1 Z0 d( U　　And bearing silence with thee disengage
　　Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods
　　Alone can cherish thee, alone possess
　　Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime:
! R: e" {+ Q- {6 L7 C0 L: w( e- q1 I  N' d　　Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods
　　That sole condition of all loveliness,
　　The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.
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