W. B. Yeats - The New Faces 汉译

If you, that have grown old, were the first dead,

Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime

Should hear my living feet, nor would I tread

Where we wrought that shall break the teeth of Time.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will

In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,

Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,

The living seem more shadowy than they.

新面孔

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

假如你，年已老迈，率先死亡，

那么梓树和芳香的菩提树将不会

听见我活着的脚步声，我也不会踏上

我们工作过的地方，那将折断时光的牙齿。

让那些新面孔在旧房间里任意恣情

玩弄他们的伎俩；黑夜会重于白昼，

我们的影子徘徊于宁静的花园石径，

活着的人显得比它们更象是影子。