文章基本信息

标题：Speaking in Bronze.
作者：Stead, C.K.
期刊名称：Harvard Review
印刷版ISSN：1077-2901
出版年度：2008
期号：December
语种：English
出版社：Harvard Review

摘要：for Jadranka Pintaric

 Spring has come early to Zagreb. The market tables are scarlet with strawberries, the town woods are in full leaf. On the wide veranda of Dubravkin Put the melancholy waiter serves us English tea with a look of regret that says "This is what you ordered, but our coffee is so much better." The statue of the writer with the unpronounceable name watches us pass on the path that was once his own. His house was there among the trees and his heart was in the city. Life was serious then, every word counted. There was a world to be saved, or set to rights. "Where did it all go wrong?" he seems to ask, speaking in bronze. "Why did I die too soon?"

关键词：Bronze

Speaking in Bronze.

Stead, C.K.

for Jadranka Pintaric

Spring has come early to Zagreb.
The market tables are scarlet with strawberries,
the town woods are in full leaf.
On the wide veranda of Dubravkin Put
the melancholy waiter serves us English tea
with a look of regret that says
"This is what you ordered, but our coffee is so much better."
The statue of the writer with the unpronounceable name
watches us pass on the path that was once his own.
His house was there among the trees
and his heart was in the city.
Life was serious then, every word counted.
There was a world to be saved, or set to rights.
"Where did it all go wrong?" he seems to ask,
speaking in bronze.
"Why did I die too soon?"