Under Milk Wood / All Through The Night - Michael Sheen/The Band Of The Welsh Guards.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Traditional
[00:04.400]To begin at the beginning:
[00:06.413]It is spring,
[00:09.409]moonless night in the small town,
[00:13.632]starless and bible-black,
[00:17.642]the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
[00:22.702]courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
[00:26.945]sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack,
[00:29.698]fishingboatbobbing sea.
[00:32.959]The houses are blind as moles
[00:37.870](though moles see fine to-night in the snouting, velvet dingles)
[00:40.583]or blind as Captain Cat
[00:42.820]there in the muffled middle
[00:45.085]by the pump and the town clock,
[00:47.325]the shops in mourning,
[00:50.330]the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds.
[00:55.588]And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town
[00:57.821]are sleeping now.
[01:00.085]Hush,
[01:05.320]the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers,
[01:09.326]the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher,
[01:10.823]postman and publican,
[01:13.819]the undertaker and the fancy woman,
[01:16.083]drunkard, dressmaker, preacher,
[01:17.824]policeman, the webfoot
[01:21.030]cocklewomen and the tidy wives.
[01:27.036]Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams
[01:29.271]with rings and trousseaux,
[01:34.971]bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.
[01:37.969]The boys are dreaming wicked
[01:43.159]or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrodgered sea.
[01:47.906]And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields,
[01:53.545]and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wetnosed yards;
[01:56.319]and the cats nap in the slant corners
[01:57.818]or lope sly,
[02:02.802]streaking and needling,on the one cloud of the roofs.
[02:06.562]You can hear the dew falling,
[02:10.808]and the hushed town breathing.
[02:19.812]Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast,
[02:23.559]and slow, asleep.
[02:27.811]And you alone can hear the invisible starfall,
[02:33.817]the darkest-beforedawn minutely dewgrazed stir of
[02:38.560]the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa,
[02:43.310]the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon,
[02:45.056]the Rover,the Cormorant,
[02:50.059]and the Star of Wales tilt and ride.
[02:58.322]Listen.
[03:03.562]It is night moving in the streets,
[03:08.062]the processional salt slow musical wind
[03:11.062]in Coronation Street and Cockle Row,
[03:16.813]it is the grass growing on Llaregyb Hill,
[03:21.318]dewfall, starfall,
[03:26.556]the sleep of birds in Milk Wood.