W. B. Yeats - A Coat 汉译

I made my song a coat

Covered with embroideries

Out of old mythologies

From heel to throat;

But he fools caught it,

Wore it in the world’s eyes

As though they’d wrought it.

Song, let them take it,

For there’s more enterprise

In walking naked.

一件外套

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

我为我的歌儿缝就

一件长长的外套，

上面缀满剪自古老

神话的花边刺绣；

但蠢人们把它抢去，

穿上在人前炫示，

俨然出自他们之手。

歌，让他们拿去，

因为要有更大的魄力

才敢于赤身行走。