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On beauty

Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the 1)weaver of your speech?

The 2)aggrieved and the 3)injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own 4)glory she walks among us."

And the 5)passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of 6)might and 7)dread. Like the 8)tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."

The tired and the 9)weary say, "Beauty is of soft 10)whisperings. She speaks in our spirit. Her voice 11)yields to our silences like a 12)faint light that 13)quivers 14)in fear of the shadow."

But the 15)restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains, and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the 16)roaring of lions."

At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."

And at 17)noon-time the 18)toilers and the 19)wayfarers say, "We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."

In winter say the 20)snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."

And in the summer heat the 21)reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

All these things have you said of beauty, yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, and beauty is not a need but an 22)ecstasy. It is not a mouth 23)thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart 24)enflamed and a soul 25)enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the 26)sap within the 27)furrowed 28)bark, nor a wing attached to a 29)claw, but rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

Beauty is life when life 30)unveils her holy face.

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flock [flɔk]

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n. 一群(人,兽),大堆
v. 成群而行,聚

 
sap [sæp]

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n. 半穿甲的(烧结铝粉); the liquid wi

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faint [feint]

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n. 昏厥,昏倒
adj. 微弱的,无力的,模

 
ecstasy ['ekstəsi]

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n. 狂喜,入迷
Ecstasy
n

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spoke [spəuk]

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v. 说,说话,演说

 
passionate ['pæʃənit]

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adj. 热情的,易怒的,激情的

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bark [bɑ:k]

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v. (狗)吠,咆哮
n. 狗吠,咆哮

 
reaper ['ri:pə]

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reaper:n. 收割者,收割机

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drift [drift]

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vi. 漂流,漂移,漂泊,吹积,偏离
vt.

 
aggrieved [ə'gri:vd]

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adj. (因受伤害而)愤愤不平的,痛心的,受到侵犯的

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