W. B. Yeats - Vacillation (III) 汉译

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Satisfy ambition, animate

The trivial days and ram them with the sun,

And yet upon these maxims meditate:

All women dote upon an idle man

Although their children need a rich estate;

No man has ever lived that had enough

Of children's gratitude or woman's love.

 

No longer in Lethean foliage caught

Begin the preparation for your death

And from the fortieth winter by that thought

Test every work of intellect or faith,

And everything that your own hands have wrought

And call those works extravagance of breath

That are not suited for such men as come

Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

 

踌躇（三）

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

 

获取你可能得到的所有金银，

满足野心，或使琐碎的日子

生动起来，使它们充满阳光，

但是，仔细想一想这些格言：

所有女人都宠爱一个懒散男人，

尽管她们的孩子需要一份财产；

世上从未有过一个男人曾享足

孩子的感激和女人的爱慕。

别再困陷于忘川的树叶中间，

开始为你的死亡做准备吧，

自第四十个冬天起以那思想

检验理智或信仰的每一件作品，

和你自己的双手制作的一切，

把那些作品叫做呼吸的浪费，

它们不适合那些骄傲地

睁着眼大笑着来到墓地的人。