英语沙龙：Wherein Lies Happiness（在线收听）

Wherein Lies Happiness

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks 

Our ready minds to fellowship divine, 

A fellowship with essence; till we shine, 

Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold 

The clear religion of heaven! Fold 

A rose leaf round thy finger’s taperness, 

And soothe thy lips: hist, when the airy stress 

Of music’s kiss impregnates the free winds, 

And with a sympathetic touch unbinds 

Eolian magic from their lucid wombs: 

Then old songs waken from enclouded tombs; 

…Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept 

Into a sort of oneness, and our state 

Is like a floating spirit’s. But there are 

Richer entanglements, enthralments far 

More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, 

To the chief intensity: the crown of these 

Is made of love and friendship, and sits high 

Upon the forehead of humanity…