这样的说了一遍,他觉得自家可怜起来,好像有万千哀怨,横亘在胸中,一口说不出来的样子。含了一双清泪,他的眼睛又看到他手里的书上去。
Behold her, single in the field,
You solitary highlandlass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts, and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain
Oh, listen!for the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
看了这一节之后,他又忽然翻过一张来,脱头脱脑的看到那第三节去。
Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battle long ago?
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
这也是他近来的一种习惯,看书的时候,并没有次序的。几百页的大书,更可不必说了,就是几十页的小册子,如爱美生的《自然论》
(Emerson''s OnNature ),沙罗的《逍遥游》 ( Thoreau''s Excursion
)之类,也没有完完全全从头至尾的读完一遍过。当他起初翻开一册书来看的时候,读了四行五行或一页二页,他每被那一本书感动,恨不得要一口气把那一本书吞下肚子里去的样子,到读了三页四页之后,他又生起一种怜惜的心来,他心里似乎说:“像这样的奇书,不应该一口气就把它念完,要留着细细儿的咀嚼才好。
一下子就念完了之后,我的热望也就不得不消灭,那时候我就没有好望,没有梦想了,怎么使得呢?”