2016-07-16

【Leave Me, O Love】

Philip Sidney (1554—1586)

         Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust；

         And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things；

         Grow rich in that which never taketh rust．

         Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings．

         Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might

         To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be,

         Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light,

         That doth both shine and give us sight to see．

         O, take fast hold! let that light be thy guide

         In this small course which birth draws out to death---

         And think how evil becometh him to slide,

         Who seeketh heaven, and comes of heavenly breath．

         Then farewell, world; thy uttermost I see：

         Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me．

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《我的愛離我而去》】

愛馬仕•悉尼(1554生—1586卒)

                我的愛離我而去，

                我的愛已化作灰塵；

                我的心跟隨着你，

                一起向高天飛升；

                在那永無衰朽的空際，

                愛得更加甜蜜香醇；

                即使一切消散，

                消散也帶着溫馨。

                收斂了音容笑貌，

                潛藏起所有智能；

                落入那溫柔的桎梏，

                在那裡自由永存；

                它撥開了雲霧，

                它展現了光明；

                這光明熠熠生輝，

                它啟迪着我們的心靈。

                啊, 把這光輝牢牢把握，

                讓這光輝把你引領；

                由生一直延伸到死，

                去走完這短暫的旅程——

                豈不見迷途中邪惡終成邪惡，

                妄想登天卻美夢難以成真。

                永別了, 這個世界，

                我已看到了你至高的意境，

                亙古不滅的愛，

                你在我生命中得到永生。

【注】愛丁堡“山上城堡”聖吉爾斯“守護”大教堂是中世紀教區教堂建築的典範，在蘇格蘭宗教改革中發揮了重要作用。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2016: Royal Yacht Britannia, Scotland(蘇格蘭皇家郵輪·“不列顛女神號”輪)

2014: GHCS Camp—Yo Yo-1(光華營抖空竹之一)

Statue of Charles II in front of the East Façade @ St. Giles' Cathedral

(聖吉爾斯大教堂東側·查理“自由人”二世雕像)

Crown Steeple Dated from the Late 15^th Century

(十五世紀末期加建的王冠尖頂)

Medieval Crown Steeples w/ 8 Buttresses: 4 Springing from the Corners and 4 Springing from the Centre of Each Side of the Tower

(中世紀的冠尖尖頂由八個支柱組成：四個從拐角處彈起，四個從塔身兩側的中心彈起)

The West Façade (大教堂西側 07-16-2016)

Victorian West Doorway (維多利亞“勝利”時代的西門)

Detail of West Doorway (西門詳圖)

Statue of David Hume

(蘇格蘭啟蒙哲學家大衛·休謨“慈愛·神聖”)

Statue of Adam Smith

(蘇格蘭經濟學家亞當·斯密斯“人類·鐵匠”)

Interior Panorama (教堂內景)

Banners of Thistle Knights (薊花騎士旗幟 07-16-2016)

Nave (中殿 07-16-2016)

Nave Vault (中殿拱頂)

Stained Glass Window (花窗)

Stained Glass Window (花窗)

Stained Glass Window (花窗)

Candelabrum (大燭台)

A 12^th-Century Grotesque, Reincorporated in the 15^th-Century Vaulted Ceiling 

(被重新用於十五世紀拱頂的十二世紀石像鬼)

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