W. B. Yeats - A Meditation in Time of War 汉译

For one throb of the artery,

While on that old grey stone I sat

Under the old wind-broken tree,

I knew that One is animate,

Mankind inanimate fantasy.

战时冥想

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

在被风吹折的老树荫中

静坐在那古老的青石上之时，

由于脉搏的猛一下跳动，

我悟知太一是活生生的存在，

人类则是无生命的幻影。