美文赏析 松树 Pines
Pines
The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, brings into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them, or a bank of cowslips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot down the stem; it shall point to the center of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
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- 诗歌 在清晨许个愿
- 诗歌 世界上最遥远的距离 The furthest distance in the world
- 诗歌 一粒沙子 A Grain of Sand
- 诗歌 让我们成为更有爱心的人 The More Loving One
- 诗歌 爱情 Love
- 诗歌 美德 Virtue
- 诗歌 青春的飞逝 The Flight of Youth
- 诗歌 人生礼颂 A Psalm of Life
- 诗歌 生活的忠告 Words to Live by
- 诗歌 雨天 The Rainy Day