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◇ Simon Lee, the old Huntsman ◇
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1798
(공저) 워즈워스, 콜리지
 

1. SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.

 
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In the sweet shire of Cardigan,
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Not far from pleasant Ivor-hall,
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An old man dwells, a little man,
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I've heard he once was tall.
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Of years he has upon his back,
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No doubt, a burthen weighty;
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He says he is three score and ten,
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But others say he's eighty.
 
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A long blue livery-coat has he,
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That's fair behind, and fair before;
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Yet, meet him where you will, you see
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At once that he is poor.
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Full five and twenty years he lived
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A running huntsman merry;
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And, though he has but one eye left,
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His cheek is like a cherry.
 
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No man like him the horn could sound.
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And no man was so full of glee;
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To say the least, four counties round
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Had heard of Simon Lee;
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His master's dead, and no one now
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Dwells in the hall of Ivor;
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Men, dogs, and horses, all are dead;
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He is the sole survivor.
 
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His hunting feats have him bereft
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Of his right eye, as you may see:
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And then, what limbs those feats have left
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To poor old Simon Lee!
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He has no son, he has no child,
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His wife, an aged woman,
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Lives with him, near the waterfall,
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Upon the village common.
 
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And he is lean and he is sick,
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His little body's half awry
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His ancles they are swoln and thick
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His legs are thin and dry.
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When he was young he little knew
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Of husbandry or tillage;
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And now he's forced to work, though weak,
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The weakest in the village.
 
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He all the country could outrun,
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Could leave both man and horse behind;
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And often, ere the race was done,
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He reeled and was stone-blind.
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And still there's something in the world
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At which his heart rejoices;
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For when the chiming hounds are out,
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He dearly loves their voices!
 
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Old Ruth works out of doors with him,
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And does what Simon cannot do;
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For she, not over stout of limb,
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Is stouter of the two.
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And though you with your utmost skill
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From labour could not wean them,
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Alas! 'tis very little, all
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Which they can do between them.
 
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Beside their moss-grown hut of clay,
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Not twenty paces from the door,
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A scrap of land they have, but they
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Are poorest of the poor.
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This scrap of land he from the heath
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Enclosed when he was stronger;
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But what avails the land to them,
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Which they can till no longer?
 
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Few months of life has he in store,
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As he to you will tell,
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For still, the more he works, the more
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His poor old ancles swell.
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My gentle reader, I perceive
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How patiently you've waited,
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And I'm afraid that you expect
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Some tale will be related.
 
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O reader! had you in your mind
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Such stores as silent thought can bring,
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O gentle reader! you would find
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A tale in every thing.
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What more I have to say is short,
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I hope you'll kindly take it;
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It is no tale; but should you think,
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Perhaps a tale you'll make it.
 
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One summer-day I chanced to see
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This old man doing all he could
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About the root of an old tree,
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A stump of rotten wood.
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The mattock totter'd in his hand;
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So vain was his endeavour
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That at the root of the old tree
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He might have worked for ever.
 
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"You're overtasked, good Simon Lee,
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Give me your tool" to him I said;
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And at the word right gladly he
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Received my proffer'd aid.
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I struck, and with a single blow
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The tangled root I sever'd,
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At which the poor old man so long
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And vainly had endeavour'd.
 
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The tears into his eyes were brought,
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And thanks and praises seemed to run
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So fast out of his heart, I thought
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They never would have done.
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I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
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With coldness still returning.
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Alas! the gratitude of men
【원문】Simon Lee, the old Huntsman
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