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

IX. Young Man’s Song

“She will change,” I cried.

“Into a withered crone.”

The heart in my side,

That so still had lain,

In noble rage replied

And beat upon the bone:

“Uplift those eyes and throw

Those glances unafraid:

She would as bravely show

Did all the fabric fade;

No withered crone I saw

Before the world was made.”

Abashed by that report,

For the heart cannot lie,

I knelt in the dirt.

And all shall bend the knee

To my offended heart

Until it pardon me.

或许可谱曲的歌词

九、少年的歌

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

“她将变成，”我喊，

“一个枯槁老太婆。”

一直在我的胸肋里面

静静地躺着的心儿

猛敲着骨头，充满

高尚的义愤回答说：

“抬起你那双眼睛，

投出道道无畏的视线：

如果所有织品都褪色，

她会同样美丽地展现；

我没见过枯槁老太婆

在这世界被造就之前。”

那报告使我感到羞愧，

因为心儿不可能说谎，

我于是跪倒在尘埃里。

所有的一切都必须向

我被冒犯了的心下跪，

直到它把我原谅。