DOMESTIC PEACE

时间：2007-08-07 01:47:30

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DOMESTIC PEACE.

Why should such gloomy silence reign¹, And why is all the house so drear, When neither danger, sickness, pain, Nor death, nor want, have entered here？

We are as many as we were That other night, when all were gay And full of hope, and free from care； Yet is there something gone away.

The moon without, as pure and calm, Is shining as that night she shone； But now, to us, she brings no balm, For something from our hearts is gone.

Something whose absence leaves a void—— A cheerless want in every heart； Each feels the bliss² of all destroyed, And mourns the change——but each apart.

The fire is burning in the grate As redly as it used to burn； But still the hearth³ is desolate⁴, Till mirth, and love, and PEACE return.

'Twas PEACE that flowed from heart to heart, With looks and smiles that spoke⁵ of heaven, And gave us language to impart The blissful thoughts itself had given.

Domestic peace！ best joy of earth, When shall we all thy value learn？ White angel, to our sorrowing hearth, Return——oh, graciously return！

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1 reign
n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势
参考例句：
The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。 The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

2 bliss
n.狂喜，福佑，天赐的福
参考例句：
It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。 He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴，因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。

3 hearth
n.壁炉炉床，壁炉地面
参考例句：
She came and sat in a chair before the hearth.她走过来，在炉子前面的椅子上坐下。 She comes to the hearth,and switches on the electric light there.她走到壁炉那里，打开电灯。

4 desolate
adj.荒凉的，荒芜的；孤独的，凄凉的；v.使荒芜，使孤寂
参考例句：
The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。 We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后，我们都觉得万分孤寂。

5 spoke
n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说
参考例句：
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。 The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。