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In Westminster Abbey

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"The Southern Transept，hardly known by any other name but Poet's Corner."

DEAN STANLEY.

TREAD softly here； the sacredest of tombs

Are those that hold your Poets. Kings and queens

Are facile accidents of Time and Chance.

Chance sets them on the heights， they climb not there！

But he who from the darkling mass of men

Is on the wing of heavenly thought upborne

To finer ether， and becomes a voice

For all the voiceless， God anointed him：

His name shall be a star， his grave a shrine¹.

Tread softly here， in silent reverence² tread.

Beneath those marble cenotaphs and urns³

Lies richer dust than ever nature hid

Packed in the mountain's adamantine heart，

Or slyly wrapt in unsuspected sand——

The dross⁴ men toil⁵ for， and oft stain the soul.

How vain and all ignoble⁶ seems that greed

To him who stands in this dim claustral air

With these most sacred ashes at his feet！

This dust was Chaucer， Spenser， Dryden this——

The spark that once illumed it lingers still.

O ever-hallowed spot of English earth！

If the unleashed⁷ and happy spirit of man

Have option to revisit our dull globe，

What august Shades at midnight here convene⁸

In the miraculous⁹ sessions of the moon，

When the great pulse of London faintly throbs¹⁰，

And one by one the stars in heaven pale！

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1 shrine
n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣
参考例句：
The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。 They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

2 reverence
n.敬畏，尊敬，尊严；Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称；v.尊敬，敬畏，崇敬
参考例句：
He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。 We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。

3 urns
n.壶( urn的名词复数 )；瓮；缸；骨灰瓮
参考例句：
Wine utensils unearthed include jars, urns, pots, bowls and cups. 发掘出的酒器皿有瓶、瓮、罐、壶、碗和杯子。来自互联网 Ernie yearned to learn to turn urns. 呕尼渴望学会转咖啡壶。来自互联网

4 dross
n.渣滓；无用之物
参考例句：
Caroline felt the value of the true ore,and knew the deception of the flashy dross.卡罗琳辨别出了真金的价值，知道那种炫耀的铁渣只有迷惑人的外表。 The best players go off to the big clubs,leaving us the dross.最好的队员都投奔大俱乐部去了，就只给我们剩下些不中用的人。

5 toil
vi.辛劳工作，艰难地行动；n.苦工，难事
参考例句：
The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.财富来自大众的辛勤劳动。 Every single grain is the result of toil.每一粒粮食都来之不易。

6 ignoble
adj.不光彩的，卑鄙的；可耻的
参考例句：
There's something cowardly and ignoble about such an attitude.这种态度有点怯懦可鄙。 Some very great men have come from ignoble families.有些伟人出身低微。

7 unleashed
v.把（感情、力量等）释放出来，发泄( unleash的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
The government's proposals unleashed a storm of protest in the press. 政府的提案引发了新闻界的抗议浪潮。 The full force of his rage was unleashed against me. 他把所有的怒气都发泄在我身上。来自《简明英汉词典》

8 convene
v.集合，召集，召唤，聚集，集合
参考例句：
The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。 Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月，高级官员在伦敦会齐。

9 miraculous
adj.像奇迹一样的，不可思议的
参考例句：
The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。 They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人，赢得了非凡的胜利。

10 throbs
体内的跳动( throb的名词复数 )
参考例句：
My finger throbs with the cut. 我的手指因切伤而阵阵抽痛。 We should count time by heart throbs, in the cause of right. 我们应该在正确的目标下，以心跳的速度来计算时间。