开章那首小诗的最后两句(嗷~~我又胡乱引用了╮(╯▽╰)╭),选自兰德的《生与死》,原文如下:Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday
I strove with none;
for none was worth my strife.
Nature I loved and,
next to Nature,Art;
I warm'd both hands
before the fire of life;
It sinks,and I am ready to depart.