W. B. Yeats - Tom O’ Roughley 汉译

‘Though logic choppers rule the town,  

And every man and maid and boy  

Has marked a distant object down,  

An aimless joy is a pure joy,’  

Or so did Tom O’Roughley say      

That saw the surges running by,  

‘And wisdom is a butterfly  

And not a gloomy bird of prey.  

‘If little planned is little sinned  

But little need the grave distress.   

What’s dying but a second wind?  

How but in zigzag wantonness  

Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?’  

Or something of that sort he said,  

‘And if my dearest friend were dead   

I’d dance a measure on his grave.’