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关于天空的英文诗句
1. 谁知道关于描写天空的英语诗
In a calm sea every man is a helmsman.
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
Dust is raised while a horse is galloping .But it will never fly before the horse.
The floating clouds, is only the slave of wind, although it brings thunder and lightning.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
There are many beautiful things, but the silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all.
Snow glittering like diamonds; ice delicate as lace; clouds like sails.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
The sea's mother is the brook.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
God gives every bird his worm, but he doesn't throw it into the nest.
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Mishap is a school.
The finest bosom in nature is mot so find as what imagination forms.
The moon is a poem suspended in the sky.
翻译:
月亮是悬挂在天上的一首诗
在平静的海面上,人人都可以当舵手。
天上永远不会掉下玫瑰。想要更多的玫瑰,我们必须自己种植。
尘土在骏马飞奔时纷纷扬起,但它终究不能飞到骏马前面去。
尽管浮云有时挟雷携电,但它不过是风的奴隶。
风暴使树木深深扎根。
自然轻轻一点,便将世界连成一体。
有的人像公鸡,以为太阳是因为要听到它啼叫才升起。
世界上有许多美丽的东西,但最美的是花儿无声的美。
雪像钻石一样闪闪发光;冰像花边一样细腻;云像帆一样启航。
爬过一座大山后,你会发现还有更多的山要爬。
人是唯一自设陷阱、诱饵、然后迈进去的动物。
大海的母亲是小溪。
谁也不能通过抚摸将一只老虎变成一只小猫。
上帝会给每只小鸟虫子,但决不会扔进它们的巢里。
雪崩中的每朵雪花都不会承认自己有罪。
我们都是小虫子,但我相信我是一只萤火虫。
灾难是一所学校。
自然界最美的花朵也没不过想象中的花朵。
月亮是悬挂在天上的一首诗。
2. 请问一下谁知道关于天空的英文诗
I wrote your name on the sky but the wind blew it away. I wrote your name on the sand, but the wave washed it away. I wrote your name in my heart, and forever it will stay。
我在天空上写下你的名字,但是风把它吹散了;我把你的名字写在沙石上,但是浪花把它冲散了;我把你的名字写在我的心上,它将永远留在那。
可以么?
3. 关于天空的英语诗、天空的英语作文、天空的英语资料
In the sky has blue sky, the bird is singing in the deep blue sky, freely soars. Several white clouds flutter in the blue sky, likes a white lotus, was beautiful extremely!
In our heart has blue sky, that is our childlike innocence, is the blue color, is chaste, fills the dream, is wonderful mysterious.
Mother in the heart also has sky, in the heart has we, the sky is scarlet, because red representative the enthusiasm, is a golden color, because the sunlight is a golden color, is crystal clear transparent, because, that is a silver heart.
The day, three kind of days, we ride the airplane, hovers in the blue sky. Sings in the childlike innocence. Joyfully grows in mother's heart.
Maybe
s mean's the dream,I love
s in the blue sky,It's always bright and pretty,and always take me to a beautiful dream.
I really like to look at the little stars,when I look at them,I feel very relax and happy.The stars are quiet and just like full of beautiful magic, It's amazy.
Just like wonders,
s in the deapiest blue sky is so pretty,"one , two, three, four, five, six, seven……"there has so many so many stars in the sky,I really can't count it.
When I was so lonely,I will look at the sky,and told the little stars my little secrets,told the little stars my dream,and told them so many so many interesting things,then I will feel less lonely.
I like the stars in the sky!望采纳
4. 求描写星空的英文诗
Here I stand in Bressanone with the stars up in the sky
Are they shining over Brenner
and upon the other side you would be a sweet surrender
I must go the other way
And my train will carry me onward though my heart would surdly stay
Wo my heart would surely stay
Mow the clouds are flying by me
and the moon is the rise I have left stars behind me
they were disamondsin your skies
You would be a sweet surrender
I must go the other way
And my train will carry me onward though my heart would surely stay
Wo my heart would surely stay
我站在布列瑟侬的星空下
而星星,也在天的另一边照着布列勒。
请你温柔的放手,因我必须远走。
虽然,火车将带走我的人,但我的心,却不会片刻相离。
哦,我的心不会片刻相离。
看着身边白云浮掠,日落月升。
我将星辰抛在身后,让他们点亮你的天空 。
5. 跪求一篇关于“大海”或“天空”的英语诗歌
Her Playnate Is The Seaby LeonnaI watch her from the doorAs she plays along the shoreShe digs her toes into the sandBuilds a castle from the landA wave sweeps past her kneesShe giggles, as if to teaseA bucket, shovel, sand and waterEasily occupy my daughterShe has a smile, when she looks up at me My child so happy by the seaShe is alone, but not lonelyHer playmate is the sea。
6. 描写星空的英文句子有哪些
描写星空的英文句子有:The cloudless sky was jewelled with myriads of glittering stars,意思是无云的晴空镶嵌着无数颗闪烁的星星。
描写星空的句子其他如下:
1 On a clear night,the sky appears to be filled with stars.
在晴朗的夜晚,天空中布满了恒星。
2 the twinkling of a starry sky。
星空的闪耀。
3 Here,the dusk is sudden,the night silent,the panoply of stars immense and brilliant.
这里的黄昏很突然,夜很静,璀璨的星空彷佛没有尽头。
4 Stars are brilliant in the clear night sky.
星星在晴朗的夜空闪亮。
5 Clouds hid the stars.
云层遮住了星星。
参考资料
星空.图片[引用时间2018-1-15]
7. 描写星空的英文句子
the twinkling of a starry sky 星空的闪耀
Here, the dusk is sudden, the night silent, the panoply of stars immense and brilliant.
这里的黄昏很突然,夜很静,璀璨的星空彷佛没有尽头。
The cloudless sky was jewelled with myriads of glittering stars.
无云的晴空镶嵌着无数颗闪烁的星星。
On a clear night, the sky appears to be filled with stars.
在晴朗的夜晚,天空中布满了恒星。
8. 求描写星空的英文诗
Here I stand in Bressanone with the stars up in the sky
Are they shining over Brenner
and upon the other side you would be a sweet surrender
I must go the other way
And my train will carry me onward though my heart would surdly stay
Wo my heart would surely stay
Mow the clouds are flying by me
and the moon is the rise I have left stars behind me
they were disamondsin your skies
You would be a sweet surrender
I must go the other way
And my train will carry me onward though my heart would surely stay
Wo my heart would surely stay
我站在布列瑟侬的星空下
而星星,也在天的另一边照着布列勒。
请你温柔的放手,因我必须远走。
虽然,火车将带走我的人,但我的心,却不会片刻相离。
哦,我的心不会片刻相离。
看着身边白云浮掠,日落月升。
我将星辰抛在身后,让他们点亮你的天空 。
小马宝莉是哪个星座
你说的是哪一个小马?我可以和你说几个重要的角色。
六主角(Mane Six)
Twilight Sparkle(紫悦/暮光闪闪)代表魔法和友谊的公主
紫悦/暮光闪闪(2张)
对话配音:Tara Strong
唱歌配音:Rebecca Shoichet
国语配音:洪海天
日语配音:泽城美雪
昵称:暮暮
性别:女
生日:1月6日
星座:摩羯座
种族:独角兽→天角兽(S3E13)
宠物:公猫头鹰 Owlowiscious(奥罗威)
在和谐之元中代表“魔法”。
【反面性格为傲慢和渴望权力】
介绍:
薰衣草紫身体、深蓝色加紫和玫红色鬃毛、宝石紫色眼睛的小马。可爱标志为一颗紫红色大六角星覆盖着一颗白色六角星,被五颗白色小六角星包围的印记。
在宇宙公主的天才皇家独角兽魔法学院就读,学习魔法知识。认真、自律、有常识,管理能力极佳,喜欢阅读书籍,懂得多数小马都不懂的历史和传说,魔法能力十分强大,可以使用许多强力的魔法,从幼驹时代已经表现出惊人的魔法天赋。在入学考试的时候因为云宝的彩虹音爆而魔力暴走成功孵化出龙蛋,被宇宙公主发现她的魔法潜力,将她收为直属学生。其孵化出来的小龙(也就是穗龙)之后一直伴随在其身边当其助手,负责写信、寄信的工作。
因宇宙公主派遣其至小马谷监督夏日祭典的工作,在过程中认识许多新朋友,并且利用友谊的魔法解决了梦魇之月事件,至此之后便接受宇宙公主的指示,留在小马谷通过日常生活学习一些道理,被要求每周写一封信汇报。在S3E13中因完善了白胡子星璇的咒语被赋予了翅膀成为天角兽,S4E26中被授予称号“友谊公主”。在S6紫悦当上了风雪之心的姑姑,并成为星光熠熠的友谊导师。在S8开设了友谊学院,学生有各种种族。S9接任管辖小马利亚。
名字由twilight(暮光)和sparkle(闪闪)组成。角色设计灵感来源于G1的Twilight,而暮暮的妈妈Twilight Velvet 的造型设计也来源于同一匹小马。
Rainbow Dash(云宝/云宝黛西)
云宝/云宝黛西
配音:Ashleigh Ball
国语配音:范楚绒(S1-S5)、严丽祯(S6-S9) [11]
日语配音:橘田泉
性别:女
生日:4月14日
星座:白羊座
种族:飞马
宠物:公陆龟 Tank(坦克)
在和谐之元中代表“忠诚”。
【反面性格为背叛(未达到变节的程度)】
介绍:
天蓝色身体,彩虹色鬃毛,瑰红色眼睛的小马。可爱标志为一朵云下面有一道彩虹闪电。
外向、勇敢、爱笑、爱恶作剧,有些男孩子气(甚至许多观众刚看到她时误以为她是男生)。擅长飞行。飞行时尾端会拖着一道彩虹,另外就算不用翅膀奔跑速度也很快(但一般情况下只要可以飞就不会走路)。与醒目露露情同手足。可以用超音速飞行产生sonic rainboom(彩虹音爆),不喜欢做任何的美容与保养(但S6做了一次修蹄)。在S6中成为闪电飞马队员。
和碧琪是一起恶作剧的好友。在小时候为了帮柔柔而跟其他的飞马比赛飞行,并使出彩虹音爆。可以说,如果她当初没使用出彩虹音爆的话其他五只小马就不会找到自己真正的天赋。可爱标志出现的契机为"忠于自我"。
狂热地崇拜无畏天马(Daring Do)。
名字由rainbow (彩虹)和dash(冲刺)组成。
Applejack(苹果嘉儿/苹果杰克)
苹果嘉儿/苹果杰克
配音:Ashleigh Ball
国语配音:李敏妍
日语配音:徳井青空
昵称:阿杰
性别:女
生日∶7月31日
星座:狮子座
种族:陆马
宠物:雌犬 Winona(薇诺娜/维萝娜)
在和谐之元中代表“诚实”。
【反面性格为欺骗(未达到狡猾的程度)】
介绍:
橙黄色身体,金色鬃毛,翡翠绿眼睛,头戴牛仔帽小马。可爱标志为三颗苹果,是小马驹系列第一代就有的元老小马。
擅长运动,会用套索做特技,力气十分大。后蹄的力气比前蹄大,很喜欢苹果,会做各种苹果料理。苹果嘉儿的家庭成员姓名几乎都与苹果有关,在甜苹果园工作,养了一些会说话的动物。和苹果丽丽关系很好,束起来的尾巴可当作球棒或刷子用,随身携带套索。
苹果嘉儿小时候非常向往都市生活,因而借住在远方的亲戚家,但是她发现都市的生活不适合她,直到看到云宝发出的彩虹音爆之后才找到自己真正的归宿,此时她的可爱标志就出现了。可爱标志出现的契机为"对自己诚实"。
名字来源为美国一种叫做“苹果白兰地”的酒。
Rarity(珍奇/瑞瑞/瑞尔提)
珍奇/瑞瑞/瑞尔提
对话配音:Tabitha St. Germain
唱歌配音:Kazumi Evans
国语配音:张安琪(S1-S3)、王燕华(S4-S9) [11]
日语配音:佐佐木未来
性别:女
星座:处女座
种族:独角兽
宠物:母猫 Opalescence(欧泊/澳宝)
在和谐之元中代表“慷慨”。
【反面性格为贪婪(未达到反派的贪婪程度)】
介绍:
白色身体、蓝紫色鬃毛、宝蓝色眼睛的小马。可爱标志一般情况下为三颗菱形蓝宝石。有时人们看到RR的可爱标志是字母“R”,是由于RR穿了白色的袍子。
魔法不强,但擅长精细蹄工艺与服装设计,是一位流行设计师。向往坎特洛特,希望自己能嫁给贵族成为上流名马,拥有自己的服饰店。喜欢帮其他小马穿搭她自己设计的服装,有洁癖,无法忍受凌乱或肮脏的事物,但是必要时不介意弄脏自己。淑女,社交女王,总试着让自己成为注目的焦点。
珍奇在小时候为了学校表演的服装而烦恼时,她的角运用魔力将她带到一块岩石前。正当她质疑角为什么带她去找一颗普通的岩石的时候,岩石被彩虹音爆的震波给震了开来,露出里面埋藏的宝石。就在珍奇大方地将这些宝石用在道具服上面时她的可爱标志就出现了。可爱标志出现的契机为"对他人慷慨"。
名字rarity原意为“稀有”
Fluttershy(柔柔/小蝶/芙萝珊)
柔柔/小蝶/芙萝珊
配音:Andrea Libman
国语配音:罗玉婷(S1-S5)、王晓彤(S6-S9) [11]
日语配音:加藤英美里
性别:女
星座:双鱼座
种族:飞马
宠物:公兔Angel(安吉尔/天使兔)(宠物之中的主角,出场率极高还担任过几次主要角色)
在和谐之元中代表“善良”。
【反面性格为恶意(未达到恶毒的程度)】
介绍:
米黄色身体、淡粉色色鬃毛、蓝绿色眼睛的小马,长相漂亮,个性胆小、内向、善良,说话总是很小声,声音甜美。可爱标志为三只粉红翅膀的蝴蝶。
小时候非常不擅长飞行,在云宝为她而举办的飞行比赛中不慎掉落到可爱标志附近的森林。在这里她很快就发现了自己善于并喜欢跟小动物接触,她的可爱标志就出现了。可爱标志出现的契机为"对他人释出善意"。目前居住在小马谷边界的地方永恒自由森林附近。在S7E5中为动物们建造了一个栖息地。
名字由flutter(飘扬)和shy(害羞)组成。
Pinkie Pie(碧琪/萍琪派)
碧琪/萍琪派
对话配音:Andrea Libman
唱歌配音:Shannon Chan-Kent
国语配音:李晔
日语配音:三森铃子
性别:女
生日:5月3日
星座:金牛座
种族:陆马
宠物:公鳄鱼 Gummy(嘎米/软糖)
在和谐之元中代表“乐观”。
【反面性格为消极(未达到悲观的程度)】
介绍:
粉色身体,桃红色鬃毛、天蓝色眼睛的小马。可爱标志为两颗蓝气球夹带一颗黄气球。
十分积极乐观,是六只小马中的开心果。个性开朗、活泼、积极、乐观,擅常滑冰,喜爱恶作剧和唱歌,剧中大部分的曲目都是她自编自唱的,有着超乎常人的精力,走路总是一跳一跳的,喜欢甜食,喜欢粉红色,擅长制作甜点,而且口味独特,认识所有小马谷的小马。
能在任何时候、任何地点举办派对,拥有秘密武器“派对大炮”,轰一下就可以瞬间把场地布置成派对。有时会穿着不知道从哪边来的cosplay服装出场。可以以近乎瞬间移动的方式到达任何地方,还精通各种乐器,有很强的第六感,可以预知即将发生的事(S1E15),甚至能打破所谓的“第四道墙”,因此获封“神驹”称号,S8末集透露出她也有某种魔法。相当害怕寂寞,在S1E25时以为大家都不理她时因情绪低落变成过去的直发,并且开始出现一些精神异常的举止,后来和大家解开误会。但在同人里则是黑化,并通常用她的本名萍卡美娜来代表她的黑化状态。
小时候碧琪的家庭是在死气沉沉的采石场工作,过着十分枯燥乏味的生活。直到有一天她看到云宝使出的彩虹音爆后使决定要改变现况。在用派对重拾她家人们的笑容后她的可爱标志就出现了。可爱标志出现的契机为"欢笑"。
她的全名叫Pinkamena Diane Pie(萍卡美娜·戴安·派),是极少数出现全名的小马之一。
在S9E26中她带着一匹雌性幼驹来到坎特洛特的城堡,并称其为"Little Cheese"。很大概率是她与芝士三明治的女儿。
名字由pinkie(小指)和pie(馅饼)组成。
在happy tree friends同人中串过场。
助理
Spike(穗龙/斯派克)
穗龙/斯派克
配音:Cathy Weseluck
国配:罗玉婷(S1-S5)、王晓彤(S6-S9) [11]
日配:熊井统子
性别:男
星座:金牛座
种族:龙
宠物:在S2E21后认养了小凤凰Peewee(于S3E11出现的照片中得知已归还给小凤凰的父母,在S8E11也可得知)
简介:
一只紫色与绿色相间的小龙,在紫悦幼年时期参加的入学考试中因紫悦暴走的魔力让它从蛋中孵化了出来。紫悦的助手兼室友,会帮着记事、整理资料、找寻书籍、写信,能够吐出绿色的火焰,用它将信烧掉之后便会传送到他指定的地方,从那边寄来的信就由自己吐出。主食是各种宝石,但是也可以吃小马的食物,擅长挖洞。每当紫悦和她的朋友有需要时,会加以帮忙,对珍奇一见钟情(到S2以前,珍奇并没有在意他的爱慕之意)。在S8E11集时生长出翅膀。
Starlight Glimmer(星光熠熠/星光灿灿)曾是大反派(S5季首和季终)
第五季的星光熠熠
配音:Kelly Sheridan
国配:严丽祯 (S5)、李晔(S6-S7)、范楚绒(S8-S9)
昵称:书记(SG的谐音)
性别:女
星座:巨蟹座
种族:独角兽
简介:
S5E1出现的新角色,一只紫色的独角兽,魔力十分强大,可以和成为天角兽的紫悦匹敌。在S6中发型由原来的齐刘海变成了斜刘海。因幼时好友Sunburst(日光耀耀/隙日)获得可爱标志后离他而去感到悲伤,因此宣称差异会导致友谊破裂,而完全的平等才是解决之道。所以她利用魔法除去其他小马的可爱标志,然后用等号取代,并以独裁的手段在边境建立起一个反乌托邦式的小镇。后被夺回可爱标志的六主角打败。
在S5E25-26中,星光熠熠从紫悦的演讲中知道六个朋友的可爱标志都源于云宝的彩虹音爆,于是通过星璇的咒语穿越到过去,阻止云宝做彩虹音爆,差点反派们毁灭小马利亚,后来紫悦说服了她回心转意。
第六季及以后的星光熠熠
在S6中成为紫悦的学生,与曾经的朋友重归于好.S6E6与特丽克西成为好友。S6E25和特丽克西等朋友共同战胜了虫茧女王。S7E1中紫悦宣布她已经正式毕业。S9E20开始担任友谊学校校长。
配角详情
编辑 语音
小马利亚公主
特别说明:紫悦在成为天角兽后也是公主之一(友谊公主),但因主角已提到,这里不做重复。
Princess Celestia(宇宙公主/塞拉斯蒂娅公主)代表太阳和白昼的公主
宇宙公主
配音:Nicole Oliver
国配:李晔
日配:井上喜久子
昵称:大公主、Celie(塞莉)、tia(提娅)
性别:女
星座:天秤座
种族:天角兽
宠物:凤凰 Philomena(菲洛米娜/菲拉美娜)
妹妹:月亮公主
简介:
淡粉白色身体,暗彩虹色流动鬃毛,紫粉色眼睛,头戴金色镶紫色宝石皇冠的小马。可爱标志为一个太阳。小马利亚至高无上的存在,既是神也是君主。体形比一般小马要大得多。精通各种魔法,担任天才独角兽学园的校长和教师,也是紫悦和音韵公主的导师。和妹妹负责整个小马利亚的日夜运作,后因为月亮公主变成梦魇之月,宇宙公主使用了和谐之元的魔法将她囚禁在月球上一千年,并同时承担日月交替的职责。S9退位并让紫悦接替。
破灭之阳
虽然贵为王族的身分让人敬畏,但其实她相当温柔美丽,一点也不严厉,甚至还有些淘气(Molestia是同人设定,并非官方)。喜欢吃蛋糕,因为在报纸上的照片似乎有些不雅(S2E23),被同人设定成吃相难看,实际上她只是被闪光灯吓到了。总是努力试着建立亲民的形象。
因相中紫悦的魔力而将她收为直属徒弟。给紫悦许多特权,探望紫悦常常御驾亲征小马镇,常指派紫悦为代表皇家去执行任务。
在S7E10中,在星光熠熠的梦中见到黑化的宇宙公主——Daybreaker(破灭之阳/拂晓)。
Princess Luna(月亮公主/露娜公主)代表月亮和黑夜的公主;曾是大反派(本作开端)
月亮公主
配音:Tabitha St. Germain
国配:范楚绒(S1-S5) 、严丽祯(S6-S9)
日配:内山夕实(梦魇之月状态下配音为本田贵子)
昵称:二公主、露露、Woona
性别:女
星座:天蝎座
种族:天角兽
姐姐:宇宙公主
简介:
有深蓝色身体,天蓝色星空般飘逸流动鬃毛,青蓝色眼睛,头戴黑色皇冠的小马。可爱标志为一轮弯月和黑色云雾。黑色云雾在公主二姐妹日记的插图中似乎并非与弯月同时出现。
梦魇之月
首度以月亮公主的身分出场时体型同于其他小马,纯蓝鬃毛,S2E4再度出场后身型高大,鬃毛也变为星空色。最初和姐姐一起司掌日月的交替,但由于小马都在夜间就寝造成的孤单转化为嫉妒而被黑暗力量掌控成为Nightmare moon(梦魇之月/噩梦之月),后被囚禁在月球。一千年后被紫悦等六只小马用和谐之元净化,再度回归姐姐身旁,一起治理小马利亚。S9退位并让紫悦接替。
说话方式用皇家口音,出场与台词少,人气却相当高。梦境的管治者,有时会来到其他小马的梦中,帮助小马面对噩梦。
注:Luna一词源于意大利语,在意大利语中Luna的意思就是月亮。
Princess Cadence(音韵公主/韵律公主)代表爱的公主
音韵公主
配音:Britt McKillip
国配:范楚绒(S2-S3、S8-S9)、严丽祯(S4-S5)、洪海天(S6-S7)
日配:高垣彩阳
性别:女
星座:水瓶座
种族:天角兽(原种族为飞马)
简介:
又叫Mi Amore Cadenza(米阿默卡丹纱,意大利语),宇宙公主以前的学生,浅粉色身体,浅金色、紫色、玫红色三色相间鬃毛,浅紫色眼睛,头戴黄色镶紫色宝石皇冠,美丽温柔。可爱标志为镶金边的水晶爱心。S2时与闪耀盔甲结婚前她被虫茧女王抓到坎特洛特底下的岩洞里,被紫悦救出,与丈夫用爱的力量把虫茧女王打败。在S3E1,2又和紫悦一起打败了森布拉大王,和闪耀盔甲成为水晶帝国的守护者并治理帝国。她的可爱标志也正是水晶帝国的象征——水晶爱心,代表着将爱和光明传递在每人心中,她曾是紫悦的保姆。在S5E20中有了自己的宝宝风雪之心。
大作文 假如给我三天光明
-- By Helen Keller
Three Days to See
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?
Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of "Eat, drink, and be merry," but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It ahs often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would tech him the joys of sound.
Now and them I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently I was visited by a very good friends who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed.. "Nothing in particular, " she replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such reposes, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In the spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter's sleep. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the page ant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.
At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. the panorama of color and action which fills the world is taken for granted. It is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light the gift of sight is used only as a mere conveniences rather than as a means of adding fullness to life.
If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in "How to Use Your Eyes". The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes, say, for just three days. And while I am imagining, suppose you, too,set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had only three more days to see. If with the on-coming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon?
I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest on the things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.
If, by some miracle, I were granted three seeing days, to be followed by a relapse into darkness, I should divide the period into three parts.
The First Day
On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. First I should like to gaze long upon the face of my dear teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and opened the outer world to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish it in my memory, but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties, and that compassion for all humanity which she has revealed to me so often.
I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that "Window of the soul", the eye. I can only "see" through my finger tips the outline of a face. I can detect laughter, sorrow, and many other obvious emotions. I know my friends from the feel of their faces. But I cannot really picture their personalities by touch. I know their personalities, of course, through other means, through the thoughts they express to me, through whatever of their actions are revealed to me. But I am denied that deeper understanding of them which I am sure would come through sight of them, through watching their reactions to various expressed thoughts and circumstances, through noting the immediate and fleeting reactions of their eyes and countenance.
Friends who are near to me I know well, because through the months and years they reveal themselves to me in all their phases; but of casual friends I have only an incomplete impression, an impression gained from a handclasp, from spoken words which I take from their lips with my finger tips, or which they tap into the palm of my hand.
How much easier, how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties of expression, the quiver of a muscle, the flutter of a hand. But does it ever occur to you to use your sight to see into the inner nature of a friends or acquaintance/ Do not most of you seeing people grasp casually the outward features of a face and let it go at that?
For instance can you describe accurately the faces of five good friends? some of you can, but many cannot. As an experiment, I have questioned husbands of long standing about the color of their wives' eyes, and often they express embarrassed confusion and admit that they do not know. And, incidentally, it is a chronic complaint of wives that their husbands do not notice new dresses, new hats, and changes in household arrangements.
The eyes of seeing persons soon become accustomed to the routine of their surroundings, and they actually see only the startling and spectacular. But even in viewing the most spectacular sights the eyes are lazy. Court records reveal every day how inaccurately "eyewitnesses" see. A given event will be "seen" in several different ways by as many witnesses. Some see more than others, but few see everything that is within the range of their vision.
Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for just three days!
The first day would be a busy one. I should call to me all my dear friends and look long into their faces, imprinting upon my mind the outward evidences of the beauty that is within them. I should let my eyes rest, too, on the face of a baby, so that I could catch a vision of the eager, innocent beauty which precedes the individual's consciousness of the conflicts which life develops.
And I should like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes of my dogs - the grave, canny little Scottie, Darkie, and the stalwart, understanding Great Dane, Helga, whose warm, tender, and playful friendships are so comforting to me.
On that busy first day I should also view the small simple things of my home. I want to see the warm colors in the rugs under my feet, the pictures on the walls, the intimate trifles that transform a house into home. My eyes would rest respectfully on the books in raised type which I have read, but they would be more eagerly interested in the printed books which seeing people can read, for during the long night of my life the books I have read and those which have been read to me have built themselves into a great shining lighthouse, revealing to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit.
In the afternoon of that first seeing day. I should take a long walk in the woods and intoxicate my eyes on the beauties of the world of Nature trying desperately to absorb in a few hours the vast splendor which is constantly unfolding itself to those who can see. On the way home from my woodland jaunt my path would lie near a farm so that I might see the patient horses ploughing in the field 9perhaps I should see only a tractor!) and the serene content of men living close to the soil. And I should pray for the glory of a colorful sunset.
When dusk had fallen, I should experience the double delight of being able to see by artificial light which the genius of man has created to extend the power of his sight when Nature decrees darkness.
In the night of that first day of sight, I should not be able to sleep, so full would be my mind of the memories of the day.
The Second Day
The next day - the second day of sight - I should arise with the dawn and see the thrilling miracle by which night is transformed into day. I should behold with awe the magnificent panorama of light with which the sun awakens the sleeping earth.
This day I should devote to a hasty glimpse of the world, past and present. I should want to see the pageant of man's progress, the kaleidoscope of the ages. How can so much be compressed into one day? Through the museums, of course. Often I have visited the New York Museum of Natural History to touch with my hands many of the objects there exhibited, but I have longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there - animals and the races of men pictured in their native environment;gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs and mastodons which roamed the earth long before man appeared, with his tiny stature and powerful brain, to conquer the animal kingdom; realistic presentations of the processes of development in animals, in man, and in the implements which man has used to fashion for himself a secure home on this planet; and a thousand and one other aspects of natural history.
I wonder how many readers of this article have viewed this panorama of the face of living things as pictured in that inspiring museum. Many, of course, have not had the opportunity, but I am sure that many who have had the opportunity have not made use of it. there, indeed, is a place to use your eyes. You who see can spend many fruitful days there, but I with my imaginary three days of sight, could only take a hasty glimpse, and pass on.
My next stop would be the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for just as the Museum of Natural History reveals the material aspects of the world, so does the Metropolitan show the myriad facets of the human spirit. Throughout the history of humanity the urge to artistic expression has been almost as powerful as the urge for food, shelter, and procreation. And here, in the vast chambers of the Metropolitan Museum, is unfolded before me the spirit of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as expressed in their art. I know well through my hands the sculptured gods and goddesses of the ancient Nile-land. I have felt copies of Parthenon friezes, and I have sensed the rhythmic beauty of charging Athenian warriors. Apollos and Venuses and the Winged Victory of Samothrace are friends of my finger tips. The gnarled, bearded features of Homer are dear to me, for he, too, knew blindness.
My hands have lingered upon the living marble of roman sculpture as well as that of later generations. I have passed my hands over a plaster cast of Michelangelo's inspiring and heroic Moses; I have sensed the power of Rodin; I have been awed by the devoted spirit of Gothic wood carving. These arts which can be touched have meaning for me, but even they were meant to be seen rather than felt, and I can only guess at the beauty which remains hidden from me. I can admire the simple lines of a Greek vase, but its figured decorations are lost to me.