是最具生產力的事情!”
我也曾經是熱愛湖塘的小男孩,擁有無數豔陽天與夏日。如今陽光、夏日依舊,男孩和湖塘卻已改變。那男孩已長大成人,不再有那麼多時間泛舟湖上。而湖塘也為大城市所並。曾有蒼鷺覓食的沼澤,如今已枯竭殆盡,上面蓋滿了房舍。睡蓮靜靜漂浮的湖灣,現在成了汽艇的避風港。總之,男孩所愛的一切都已不復存在——只留在人們的回憶中。
有些人堅持認為只有今日和明日才是重要的,可是如果真的照此生活,我們將是何其可憐!許多今日我們做的事是徒勞不足取的,很快就會被忘記。許多我們期待明天將要做的事情卻從來沒有發生過。
過去是一所銀行。我們將最可貴的財產——記憶珍藏其中。記憶賜予我們生命的意義和深度。
真正珍惜過去的人,不會悲嘆舊日美好時光的逝去。因為藏於記憶中的時光永不流失。死亡本身無法止住一個記憶中的聲音,或擦除一個記憶中的微笑。對現已長大成人的那個男孩來說,那兒將有一個池塘不會因時間和潮汐而改變,可以讓他繼續在陽光下享受安靜時光。
Hour in the Sun
John
“… I was rich�if not in money�in sunny hours and summer days。〃
——Henry David Thoreau
When Thoreau wrote that line�he was thinking of the
Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its �lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around “when idleness was the most attractive and productive business。〃
I too was once a boy in love with a pond�rich in sunny hours and summer �but the boy and the pond �who is now a man�no longer finds much time for idle �everything that the boy loved no longer exists—except in the man's memory of it。
Some people insist that only today and tomorrow ! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon
The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession:the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives。
Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days�because days enshrined in memory are never �there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change�where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun。
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玫 瑰
'英國'洛根·皮爾索爾·史密斯
洛根·皮爾索爾·史密斯(1865—1946),生於美國費城,但大半生在英國度過,主要致力於英國語言的研究。主要作品有《亨利·沃頓爵士傳記》、《讀莎士比亞》、《彌爾頓和他的現代評論家》、《難忘的年代》等。本文是一篇圍繞玫瑰展開的一個觸動人心的愛情故事。
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