新东方英语背诵美文30篇 第七篇 When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤

　　When Love Beckons You

　　When Love beckons to you, follow Him,

　　Though His ways are hard and steep.

　　And when His wings enfold you, yield to Him;

　　Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

　　And when He speaks to you, believe Him,

　　Though His voice may shatter your dreams,

　　As the north wind lays waste the garden.

　　For even as Love crowns you, so shall He crucify you.

　　Even as He is for your growth-so is He for your pruning.

　　Even as He ascends to your height

　　And caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

　　So shall He descend to your roots

　　And shake them in their clinging to the earth.

　　Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto Himself,

　　He threshes you to make you naked.

　　He sifts you to free you from your husks.

　　He grinds you to whiteness.

　　He kneads you until you are pliant;

　　And then He assigns you to His sacred fire,

　　That you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

　　All these things shall Love do unto you,

　　That you many know the secrets of your heart,

　　And in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

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