W. B. Yeats - The Living Beauty 汉译

I’ll say and maybe dream I have drawn content—  

Seeing that time has frozen up the blood,  

The wick of youth being burned and the oil spent—  

From beauty that is cast out of a mould  

In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,     

Appears, and when we have gone is gone again,  

Being more indifferent to our solitude  

Than ’twere an apparition. O heart, we are old,  

The living beauty is for younger men,  

We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.   

活生生的美

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

因为灯芯和灯油都已耗尽，

血液的各条渠道部已封冻，

所以我命令我的不满的心

满足于那用青铜从模具中铸造出来，

或从炫目的大理石中现身，

现身，但在我们逝去后重又消逝，

说是幻影，不如说是对我们的孤寂

漠不关心的美。心呵，我们已老迈；

活生生的美适合更年轻的人：

我们付不起它征收的滔滔泪水。