爱的五大意像英语美.docx

爱的五大意像英语美文
The Five Images of Love
Grace Rhys
GRACE RHYS-Novelist and essayist： Mary Dominic 1898, The Wooing of Sheila 1901, The Bride 1909, Five Beads on a String essays 1907, etc.
No one understands the nature of love; it is like a bird of heaven that sings a strange language. It lights down among us, coming from whence we know not, going we know not how or when, striking out wild notes of music that make even fatigued and heavy hearts to throb and give back a tone of courage.
The sorts and kinds of love are infinite in number, infinite as the days of the years of time. Each one of us is capable of many and various loves. We cannot love two creatures, not two dogs, with the same love. To each of those whom we love we offer a gem of different colour and value;—to the unknown Master of the heavens, ah! who shall tell of what sort is the love we offer to
Him? Yet in this love, too which is natural worship, we discover the same vibrational atmosphere that invades the soul of all lovers.
I doubt we shall not get much nearer to the nature of love by mere talking. Intellectual statements are of little use. God does not make intellectual statements, He creates. We have to find
our way about in the vast medley of created things that life spreads out around us, and pick up what bits of knowledge we can as we make our way along.
Let me choose five images that will give an idea