优秀诗歌赏析：The Spirit Wooed

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　　The Spirit Wooed
        　　by Philip Larkin
        　　Once I believed in you,
        　　And then you came,
        　　Unquestionably new, as fame
        　　Had said you were. But that was long ago.
        　　You launched no argument,
        　　Yet I obeyed,
        　　Straightaway, the instrument you played
        　　Distant Down sidestreets, keeping different time,
        　　And never questioned what
        　　You fascinate
        　　In me; if good or not, the state
        　　You pressed towards. There was no need to know.
        　　Grave pristine absolutes
        　　Walked in my mind:
        　　So that I was not mute, or blind,
        　　As years before or since. My only crime
        　　Was holding you too dear.
        　　Was that the cause
        　　You daily came less near—a pause
        　　Longer than life, if you decide it so?