lirik lagu robert browning - david shaw-parker - the last ride together
i said —then, dearest, since ’tis so
since now at length my fate i know
since nothing all my love avails
since all, my life seem’d meant for, fails
since this was written and needs must be—
my whole heart rises up to bless
your name in pride and thankfulness!
take back the hope you gave,—i claim
only a memory of the same
—and this beside, if you will not blame;
your leave for one more last ride with me
my mistress bent that brow of hers
those deep dark еyes where pridе demurs
when pity would be softening through
fix’d me a breathing~while or two
with life or death in the balance: right!
the blood replenish’d me again;
my last thought was at least not vain:
i and my mistress, side by side
shall be together, breathe and ride
so, one day more am i deified
who knows but the world may end to~night?
hush! if you saw some western cloud
all billowy~bosom’d, over~bow’d
by many benedictions—sun’s
and moon’s and evening~star’s at once—
and so, you, looking and loving best
conscious grew, your passion drew
cloud, sunset, moonrise, star~shine too
down on you, near and yet more near
till flesh must fade for heaven was here!—
thus leant she and linger’d—joy and fear!
thus lay she a moment on my breast
then we began to ride. my soul
smooth’d itself out, a long~cramp’d scroll
freshening and fluttering in the wind
past hopes already lay behind
what need to strive with a life awry?
had i said that, had i done this
so might i gain, so might i miss
might she have loved me? just as well
she might have hated, who can tell!
where had i been now if the worst befell?
and here we are riding, she and i
fail i alone, in words and deeds?
why, all men strive and who succeeds?
we rode; it seem’d my spirit flew
saw other regions, cities new
as the world rush’d by on either side
i thought,—all labour, yet no less
bear up beneath their unsuccess
look at the end of work, contrast
the petty done, the undone vast
this present of theirs with the hopeful past!
i hoped she would love me; here we ride
what hand and brain went ever pair’d?
what heart alike conceived and dared?
what act proved all its thought had been?
what will but felt the fleshly screen?
we ride and i see her bosom heave
there ‘s many a crown for who can reach
ten lines, a statesman’s life in each!
the flag stuck on a heap of bones
a soldier’s doing! what atones?
they scratch his name on the abbey~stones
my riding is better, by their leave
what does it all mean, poet? well
your brains beat into rhythm, you tell
what we felt only; you express’d
you hold things beautiful the best
and pace them in rhyme so, side by side
’tis something, nay ’tis much: but then
have you yourself what ‘s best for men?
are you—poor, sick, old ere your time—
nearer one whit your own sublime
than we who never have turn’d a rhyme?
sing, riding ‘s a joy! for me, i ride
and you, great sculptor—so, you gave
a score of years to art, her slave
and that ‘s your venus, whence we turn
to yonder girl that fords the burn!
you acquiesce, and shall i repine?
what, man of music, you grown gray
with notes and nothing else to say
is this your sole praise from a friend
‘greatly his opera’s strains intend
but in music we know how fashions end!’
i gave my youth: but we ride, in fine
who knows what ‘s fit for us? had fate
proposed bliss here should sublimate
my being—had i sign’d the bond—
still one must lead some life beyond
have a bliss to die with, dim~descried
this foot once planted on the goal
this glory~garland round my soul
could i descry such? try and test!
i sink back shuddering from the quest
earth being so good, would heaven seem best?
now, heaven and she are beyond this ride
and yet—she has not spoke so long!
what if heaven be that, fair and strong
at life’s best, with our eyes upturn’d
whither life’s flower is first discern’d
we, fix’d so, ever should so abide?
what if we still ride on, we two
with life for ever old yet new
changed not in kind but in degree
the instant made eternity,—
and heaven just prove that i and she
ride, ride together, for ever ride?
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