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1、wedding anniversary作品描述作者简介JUNE COTNER is the author of more than a dozen anthologies, including the bestselling Graces. She lives in Poulsbo, Washington. 文摘What Greater ThingWhat greater thing is there for two human souls,than to feel that they are joined for life-to strengthen each other in all la

2、bor,to rest on each other in all sorrow,to minister to each other in all pain,to be one with each otherin silent unspeakable memories . . .-George Eliot (1819-1880)You Were Born Together(from The Prophet)You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.You shall be together when the whi

3、te wings of death scatter your days.Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.But let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.Love one another but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

4、Fill each others cup but drink not from one cup.Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone,Even as the strings of the lute are alone though they quiverwith the same music.Give your hearts, but not into each others

5、 keeping.For only the hands of Life can contain your hearts.And stand together, yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temple stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)When Two People Are at OneWhen two people are at onein their i

6、nmost heartsThey shatter even the strength of ironor of bronzeAnd when two people understand each otherin their inmost heartsTheir words are sweet and stronglike the fragrance of orchids.I ChingMarried LoveYou and IHave so much loveThat itBurns like a fire,In which we bake a lump of clayMolded into

7、a figure of youAnd a figure of me.Then we take both of them,And break them into pieces,And mix the pieces with water,And mold again a figure of you,And a figure of me.I am in your clay.You are in my clay.In life we share a single quilt.In death we will share one bed.-Kuan Tao-Sheng (1262-1319)Transl

8、ated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling ChungTo Love AnotherFor one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation . . . Lov

9、ing does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person-it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen . . . to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances.-Ra

10、iner Maria Rilke (1875-1926)Translated by Stephen MitchellThe Passionate Shepherd to His LoveCome live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields.And we will sit upon the rocksSeeing the shepherds feed their floc

11、ks,By shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals.And I will make thee beds of rosesAnd a thousand fragrant posies,A cap of flowers and a kirtleEmbroiderd all with leaves of myrtle.A gown made of the finest wool,Which from our pretty lambs we pull;Fair lined slippers for the cold,Wi

12、th buckles of the purest gold.A belt of straw and ivy buds,With coral clasps and amber studs:And if these pleasures may thee move,Come live with me and be my love.The shepherd swains shall dance and singFor thy delight each May morning:If these delights thy mind may move,Then live with me and be my

13、love.-Christopher Marlowe (1564-1594)In One Anothers SoulsThe moment I heard my first love story I began seeking you,not realizing the search was useless.Lovers dont meet somewhere along the way.Theyre in one anothers souls from the beginning.-Rumi (1207-1273)Adapted by Eleanor Munro, from the trans

14、lation by A. J. ArberryI Shall Love YouSensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die.-V

15、oltaire (1694-1778)LoveI love you,Not only for what you are,But for what I amWhen I am with you.I love you,Not only for whatYou have made of yourself,But for whatYou are making of me.I love youFor the part of meThat you bring out;I love youFor putting your handInto my heaped-up heartAnd passing over

16、All the foolish, weak thingsThat you cant helpDimly seeing there,And for drawing outInto the lightAll the beautiful belongingsThat no one else had lookedQuite far enough to find.I love you because youAre helping me to makeOf the lumber of my lifeNot a tavernBut a temple;Out of the worksOf my every d

17、ayNot a reproachBut a song.I love youBecause you have doneMore than any creedCould have doneTo make me good,And more than any fateCould have doneTo make me happy.You have done itWithout a touch,Without a word,Without a sign.You have done itBy being yourself.Perhaps that is whatBeing a friend means,A

18、fter all.-Roy Croft (1907-1973)Entering the VowWhat is a vow,but an intentionspoken out before the worldso that the world, in hearing,might take partin aspirationsof the willing heart?In our coming here todayto join and blessthe joy of your becoming wed,may we enter inthe truth of the words youve sa

19、id,I do.-Maureen Tolman FlanneryLove Is PatientLove is patient, love is kind.It does not envy, it does not boast,it is not proud. It is not rude,it is not self-seeking,it is not easily angered,it keeps no record of wrongs.Love does not delight in evilbut rejoices with the truth.It always protects, a

20、lways trusts,always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails. . . .And now these three remain:faith, hope and love.But the greatest of these is love.-I Corinthians 13:4-8, 13 (NIV)My Bounty (from Romeo and Juliet)My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more

21、 I have, for both are infinite.-William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 品描述作者简介JUNE COTNER is the author of more than a dozen anthologies, including the bestselling Graces. She lives in Poulsbo, Washington. 文摘What Greater ThingWhat greater thing is there for two human souls,than to feel that they are joined

22、 for life-to strengthen each other in all labor,to rest on each other in all sorrow,to minister to each other in all pain,to be one with each otherin silent unspeakable memories . . .-George Eliot (1819-1880)You Were Born Together(from The Prophet)You were born together, and together you shall be fo

23、revermore.You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.But let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.Love one another but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a

24、moving sea between the shores of your souls.Fill each others cup but drink not from one cup.Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone,Even as the strings of the lute are alone though they quiverwith the same musi

25、c.Give your hearts, but not into each others keeping.For only the hands of Life can contain your hearts.And stand together, yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temple stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)When Two People Ar

26、e at OneWhen two people are at onein their inmost heartsThey shatter even the strength of ironor of bronzeAnd when two people understand each otherin their inmost heartsTheir words are sweet and stronglike the fragrance of orchids.I ChingMarried LoveYou and IHave so much loveThat itBurns like a fire

27、,In which we bake a lump of clayMolded into a figure of youAnd a figure of me.Then we take both of them,And break them into pieces,And mix the pieces with water,And mold again a figure of you,And a figure of me.I am in your clay.You are in my clay.In life we share a single quilt.In death we will sha

28、re one bed.-Kuan Tao-Sheng (1262-1319)Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling ChungTo Love AnotherFor one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which al

29、l other work is merely preparation . . . Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person-it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen . . . to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances.-Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)Translated by Stephen MitchellThe Passionate Shepherd to His LoveCome live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain