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

VII. Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dances

I found that ivory image there

Dancing with her chosen youth,

But when he wound her coal-black hair

As though to strangle her, no scream

Or bodily movement did I dare,

Eyes under eyelids did so gleam;

Love is like the lion's tooth.

When she, and though some said she played

I said that she had danced heart's truth,

Drew a knife to strike him dead,

I could but leave him to his fate;

For no matter what is said

They had all that had their hate;

Love is like the lion's tooth.

Did he die or did she die?

Seemed to die or died they both?

God be with the times when I

Cared not a thraneen for what chanced

So that I had the limbs to try

Such a dance as there was danced -

Love is like the lion's tooth.

或许可谱曲的歌词

七、年老的疯珍妮观看舞蹈者

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

我发现那象牙色的人影

在那里同她选中的青年跳舞，

可是当他缠绕起她的煤黑的头发

仿佛要把她勒死时，我不敢

惊叫，身子也不敢动，

眼眸却在眼皮下面忽闪：

爱情好象是狮子的牙齿。

当她虽然有人说她在做戏，

但是我说她跳出了心中真情意

拔出一把刀要把他刺死时，

我只能让他听凭命运的裁决；

因为，无论怎么说，

他们拥有含有他们的仇恨的一切：

爱情好象是狮子的牙齿。

是他死了还是她死了？

他们两人是装死还是真死？

愿上帝同在，当我

毫不顾忌发生什么意外，

以便腿脚可以尝试

他们跳过的那一种舞蹈之时

爱情好象是狮子的牙齿。