W. B. Yeats - Words for Music Perhaps (VI)汉译

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

I met the Bishop on the road

And much said he and I.

“Those breasts are flat and fallen now,

Those veins must soon be dry;

Live in a heavenly mansion,

Not in some foul sty.”

“Fair and foul are near of kin,

And fair needs foul,” I cried.

“My friends are gone, but that’s a truth

Nor grave nor bed denied,

Learned in bodily lowliness

And in the heart’s pride.”

“A woman can be proud and stiff

When on love intent;

But Love has pitched his mansion in

The place of excrement;

For nothing can be sole or whole

That has not been rent.”

六、疯珍妮与主教交谈

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

我在路上遇见主教，

他和我滔滔地交谈。

“现在那些乳房干瘪下垂，

那些血管很快也必定枯干；

去住一幢天堂般的宅院，

别呆在那个丑陋的猪圈。”

“美好和丑陋是近亲，

美好需要丑陋，”我呵斥。

“我的朋友们已逝去，但这是

坟墓或床铺都不否认的真理，

是在肉体的低贱

和心灵的高傲之中获知。

“当热心于恋爱之时，

一个女人会骄傲而矜持；

但是爱神已把他的宅院

抛进了沤粪的土池；

因为没有被分裂过的东西

都不会是完整或唯一。”