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| Auden, W. H. 編輯The Faber Book of Modern American Verse把The Gift Outright放在目錄前當題詞，可以想見這首詩的重要。 The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. Something we were withholding made us weak Until we found out that it was ourselves We were withholding from our land of living, And forthwith found salvation in surrender. Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realising westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become. |
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