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但贵阳城市防空力量过于单薄,只是集中在一些工厂区和重要军政机关,根本遏制不了鬼子飞机对闹市区的轰炸!
在这一片嘈杂声中,梅教授显然没法再静心看书,他猛地站了起来,右手紧紧攥着《拜伦诗选》,左手握成拳头,高高举过头顶,厚厚镜片后面眼睛里充满了血丝,对着空中在高声诵读,鲁雪华听得出来,那是拜伦的名篇《哀希腊》,头顶敌机的嚎叫、不远处炸弹的震撼,还有凄厉的防空警报声,都不能掩盖梅教授的激越又充满愤怒的吟诵!
THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,---
Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.
The Scian and the Teian muse,
The hero's harp, the lover's lute,
Have found the fame your shores refuse;
Their place of birth alone is mute
To sounds which echo further west
Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest."
梅教授那悲愤激越的声音刺痛了每个人的心!这哪里是哀希腊?分明就是哀痛多灾多难的华夏!
透过爆炸声传过来的每一个字,足以让每个血性男儿热血澎湃!鲁雪华和刘玉梅再也忍受不住了,相互对望了一眼,一起从防空洞冲了过去,紧紧依靠在老师的身边,梅教授将《拜伦诗选》扔在椅子上,一手抓住一个他最钟爱的学生,一起高声背诵诗人拜伦泣血而作的不朽名篇:
The mountains look on Marathon---
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dream'd that Greece might yet be free
For, standing on the Persians' grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.
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'Tis something, in the dearth of fame,
Though link'd among a fetter'd race,
To feel at least a patriot's shame,
Even as I sing, suffuse my face;
For what is left the poet here?
For Greeks a blush---for Greece a tear.
Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
Our virgins dance beneath the shade---
I see their glorious black eyes shine;
But, gazing on each glowing maid,
My own the burning tear-drop laves,
To think such breasts must suckle slaves.
这时,头顶上传来一阵阵清脆的机枪声。刚才来耀武扬威的日本敌机顿时惊慌失措,四下逃窜。灰色的天空上,从云层中俯冲而下一队蓝天迷彩色战机,飞机俯冲得很低,翅膀上“青天白日”图案和机头上巨大的鲨鱼血盆大口形象清晰可见!
一架刚才还在狂轰滥炸的敌机慌忙拉升,企图逃跑,但已经被鲨鱼血盆大口牢牢锁定,飞机翅膀上闪动着串串复仇的火焰,顷刻间将日本轰炸机打的凌空爆炸!
“老师!是我们的飞机!是中美联合航空队的飞机!是飞虎队!”鲁雪华用手指着天上,昂着头,激动地说。
梅教授没有和鲁雪华那么激动,而是再次大声背读刚才那段悲怆诗篇的译文,那是胡适先生1914年翻译的《哀希腊歌》:
“嗟汝希腊之群岛兮,实文教武术之所肇始。诗媛沙浮尝咏歌于斯兮,亦羲和素娥之故里。 今惟长夏之骄阳兮,纷灿烂其如初。我徘徊以忧伤兮,哀旧烈之无余!
悠悠兮,我何所思?荷马兮阿难。慷慨兮歌英雄,缠绵兮叙幽欢。享盛名于万代兮,独岑寂于斯土;大声起乎仙岛之西兮,何此邦之无语。~~”
偷袭的敌机连忙爬升,躲入云层。“飞虎队”的P40驱逐机跟在后面穷追不舍。似乎如有天助,无论鬼子飞行员如何隐藏、躲避,P40驱逐机都能将他们死死咬住,一架架敌机被打中了,拖着猩红的火焰和滚滚浓烟,正哀嚎着从云层中向下坠落。
局势突然逆转。刚才还在享受血淋淋快感的禽兽此时已成为“飞虎”的猎物,市民纷纷从隐蔽处出来,站在街上,不顾空战流弹和飞机残片掉落的危险,观看这场现场空战,为“飞虎队”的表现鼓掌叫好。
所有的学员都从防空洞冲了出来,围绕在三位老师身边,一起诵读当时每个大学生都耳熟能详的名篇:
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美酒兮盈杯!美人舞兮低徊!眼波兮盈盈,一顾兮倾城;对彼美兮,泪下不能已兮;子兮子兮,胡为生儿为奴婢兮!
置我乎须宁之岩兮,狎波涛而与为伍;且行吟以悲啸兮, 惟潮声与对语;如鸿鹄之逍遥兮,吾将于是老死:奴隶之国非吾土兮,碎此杯以自矢!”
当全体诵读完成时,忽然不远处传来一声惊天爆炸声,那是敌机被击落后撞山爆炸的绝响!
据事后统计,此次轰炸,贵阳市民被炸死亡521人,炸伤702人,炸毁民房1326栋,产财损失估计2500万元,登记的灾民有8998人,其中大部分被炸后无家可归。这是日军对中国人民犯下的又一桩血腥暴行。