[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]听力课堂 www.prnkuo.cn [00:05.46]Chapter Three [00:06.55]Beauty Is the Smile on the Earth’s Face [00:09.29]A ship in sail, [00:11.04]an opening flower, [00:12.13]a town at night, [00:13.44]the song of the blackbird, [00:15.52]a lovely poem, [00:17.38]leaf shadows, [00:18.80]a child’s grace, [00:20.44]the starry skies, [00:22.08]apple trees in spring, [00:23.83]sheep-bells on a hill, [00:25.80]a rippling stream, [00:27.11]a butterfly, [00:28.54]the crescent moon, [00:29.96]the thousand sights or sounds or words [00:32.69]that evoke in us the thought of beauty — [00:34.55]these are the drops of rain [00:36.52]that keep the human spirit from death by drought. [00:38.92]They are a stealing and silent refreshment [00:41.66]that we perhaps do not think about, [00:43.52]but which goes on all the time. [00:45.81]Beauty is the smile on the earth’s face, [00:48.66]open to all, and needs but the eyes to see, [00:51.61]the mood to understand. [00:53.25]——John Galsworthy [01:05.50]On Beauty [01:06.70]By Gibran Khalil Gibran [01:09.00]Where shall you seek beauty, [01:11.08]and how shall you find her [01:12.72]unless she herself be your way and your guide? [01:15.34]And how shall you speak of her [01:17.42]except she be the weaver of your speech? [01:19.39]The aggrieved and the injured say, [01:22.89]“Beauty is kind and gentle. [01:25.19]Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory [01:27.59]she walks among us.” [01:29.45]And the passionate say, [01:31.86]“Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread. [01:35.35]Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us [01:38.52]and sky above us.” [01:40.27]The tired and the weary say, [01:42.90]“Beauty is of soft whisperings. [01:45.52]She speaks in our spirit. [01:47.39]Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light [01:50.77]that quivers in fear of the shadow.” [01:52.63]But the restless say, [01:54.82]“We have heard her shouting among the mountains, [01:57.66]and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, [02:00.18]and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions.” [02:03.24]At night the watchmen of the city say, [02:07.07]“Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.” [02:10.68]And at noon-time the toilers say, [02:13.30]“We have seen her leaning over the earth [02:16.14]from the windows of the sunset.” [02:18.11]In winter say the snowbound, [02:20.52]“She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills.” [02:24.67]And in the summer heat the reapers say, [02:28.28]“We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, [02:31.89]and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.” [02:35.28]All these things have you said of beauty, [02:38.57]yet in truth you spoke not of her [02:40.86]but of needs unsatisfied, [02:42.72]and beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. [02:46.55]It is not a mouth thirsting [02:48.19]nor an empty hand stretched forth, [02:50.26]but rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. [02:54.10]It is not the image you would see [02:56.94]nor the song you would hear, [02:58.25]but rather an image you see though you close your eyes [03:02.08]and a song you hear though you shut your ears. [03:04.59]It is not sap within the furrowed bark, [03:08.20]nor a wing attached to a claw, [03:10.38]but rather a garden for ever in bloom [03:13.34]and a flock of angels for ever in flight. [03:16.18]Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

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