优美英文小诗精选：Leisure

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优美英文小诗精选：Leisure　　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,
' }7 B2 K5 K0 D* v& Q7 M　　Haunted our happy minds; must thou withhold
5 }, J$ Y/ }- S' S　　Thy presence from this over-busy world,
　　And bearing silence with thee disengage
$ i! B2 V; w8 A) f; K; y& [　　Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods
8 G" r9 P  x1 h6 f0 @　　Alone can cherish thee, alone possess
　　Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime:
　　Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods
, }5 @' J% \6 W　　That sole condition of all loveliness,
; h# v5 t% A% a　　The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.