Will you let me tell it?
ON SHORTY - He opens the bulky package he has been carrying,
unfolds a large rubber apron and gets into it. Now he dons a pair of
rubber gloves.
SHORTY
Wheres Homeboy?
He is all ready; one of his hands is filled with a huge glob of
Vaseline. His manner is indignant as if he were asking the whereabouts
of an exasperating child.
CHOLLY
Reds in the head, man.
TOOMER
Yo
will presently...
be as enviable
and as renowned as any.
Last night we heard
of yet another defeat.
But we are not disheartened.
I am honored to be part
of such a splendid company.
They have made me captain,
of which I am enormously proud.
You would think it strange to see me
giving orders to a hundred men...
most of whom are older than I am.
Thank you for sending
my volume of Emerson.
His words
A Red, Red Rose
O My Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O My Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
O I will love thee still, my dear,
W
-20世紀 英國詩-
(1) Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) : "The Darkling Thrush"
"The Darkling Thrush"
1 I leant upon a coppice gate
2 When Frost was spectre-gray,
3 And Winter's dregs made desolate
4 The weakening eye of day.
5 The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
6 Like strings of broken lyres,
7 And all mankind that haunted nigh
8 Ha