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在美国读写教材READ AND WRITE (Course 3, Approaching Level for G8) 中发现了此诗。大概是全诗，带注释。
Paul Revere's Ride
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;1
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,—
One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex2 village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffl ed oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings3 lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnifi ed
By its own refl ection in the tide.
1. Seventy-five refers to 1775, the year of Paul Revere’s ride.
2. Middlesex refers to the county of Middlesex in Massachusetts. The Revolutionary War
began here.
3. The place where a ship is docked is called its moorings. |
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发表于 2011-3-10 10:14:47
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