Glee! The great storm is over!

Glee! The great storm is over!

Glee! The great storm is over!
Four have recovered the land;
Forty gone down together
Into the boiling sand.

Ring, for the scant salvation!
Toll, for the bonnie souls, --
Neighbor and friend and bridegroom,
Spinning upon the shoals!

How they will tell the shipwreck
When winter shakes the door,
Till the children ask, "But the forty?
Did they come back no more?"

Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.

埃米麗·迪金森：

美國女詩人埃米麗·迪金森的自然觀與她的社會、家庭以及個人閱歷有着極其密切的聯繫。她詩歌中所描繪的自然既反映出愛默生的超驗主義思想 ,又不時地唱出與清教主義旋律相近的曲調。她熱愛大自然 ,但又夾雜着疑惑和恐懼。她的複雜的心理因素構成了她的複雜的自然觀。