2017年12月英语四级美文：Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr

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　　2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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　　Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr

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　　Caroline has known to me all my life.

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　　It was my privilege to see her out of hers.

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　　After my father’s death,

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　　to Mammy I came to represent the head of that family

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　　to which she had given a half century of fidelity and devotion.

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　　But the relationship between us never became that of master and servant.

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　　She still remained one of my earliest recollections,

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　　not only as a person,

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　　but as a fountain of authority over my conduct

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　　and of security for my physical welfare,

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　　and of active and constant affection and love.

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　　She was an active and constant percept for decent behaviour.

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　　From her I learned to tell the truth,

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　　to refrain from waste,

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　　to be considerate of the weak and respectful to age,

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　　I saw fidelity to a family which was not hers,

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　　devotion and love for people she had not borne.

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　　She was born in bondage

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　　and with a dark skin and most of her early maturity

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　　she was passed in a dark and tragic time

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　　for the land of her birth.

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　　She went through vicissitudes which she had not caused;

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　　she assumed cares and grieves

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　　which were not even her cares and grieves.

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　　She was paid wages for this,

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　　but pay is still just money.

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　　And she never received very much of that,

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　　so that she never laid up anything of this world’s goods.

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　　Yet she accepted that too, without cavil or calculation or complaint,

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　　so that by that very failure she earned the gratitude

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　　and affection of the family she had given the fidelity and devotion upon,

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　　and gained the grief and regret of the aliens who loved and lost her.

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　　She was born and lived and served,

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　　and died and now is mourned;

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　　if there is a heaven, she has gone there.

　　2017年12月英语四级美文100篇汇总

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