W. B. Yeats - Among School Children (VII) 汉译

Both nuns and mothers worship images,

But those the candles light are not as those

That animate a mother's reveries,

But keep a marble or a bronze repose.

And yet they too break hearts - O Presences

That passion, piety or affection knows,

And that all heavenly glory symbolise -

O self-born mockers of man's enterprise;

在学童中间（七）

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

修女和母亲们都崇拜偶象，

但是那些烛光照亮的尊容不似

那些惹动母亲幻想的形象，

只能使大理石或青铜保持静止。

然而它们也令人心碎——呵，种种现相，

为热情、虔诚或爱慕所熟知，

一切天国的荣耀所象征的尊神——

呵，自生的人类事业的嘲笑者们；