英語經典美文誦讀100篇：014.night

[00:03.86]014. Night [00:13.72]Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red moon, [00:18.72]and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. [00:26.63]I sit at the open window to enjoy them; and hear only the voice of the summer wind. Like black hulks, [00:34.28]the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. [00:40.03]I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there. [00:47.33]Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles. The tramp of horses’ hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge. [00:55.86]Then all is still save the continuous wind of the summer night. [01:00.74]Sometimes I know not if it be the wind or the sound of the neighboring sea. [01:06.38]The village clock strikes; and I feel that I am not alone. [01:11.62]How different it is in the city! It is late, and the crowd is gone. [01:17.96]You step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool, [01:22.09]dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. Beneath lies the public walk with trees, [01:29.95]like a fathomless, black gulf, into whose silent darkness the spirit plunges, [01:35.57]and floats away with some beloved spirit clasped in its embrace. [01:40.79]The lamps are still burning up and down the long street. People go by with grotesque shadows, [01:47.91]now foreshortened, and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, [01:53.28]while a new one springs up behind the walker, and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. [02:01.37]The iron gates of the park shut with a jangling clang. There are footsteps and loud voices; - a tumult; [02:09.10]- a drunken brawl; - an alarm of fire; - then silence again. And now at length the city is asleep, [02:17.63]and we can see the night. The belated moon looks over the rooftops and finds no one to welcome her. [02:25.65]The moonlight is broken. It lies here and there in the squares, and the opening of the streets [02:32.56]- angular like blocks of white marble.

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