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

XVI. Lullaby

Beloved, may your sleep be sound

That have found it where you fed.

What were all the world's alarms

To mighty Paris when he found

Sleep upon a golden bed

That first dawn in Helen's arms?

Sleep, beloved, such a sleep

As did that wild Tristram know

When, the potion's work being done,

Roe could run or doe could leap

Under oak and beechen bough,

Roe could leap or doe could run;

Such a sleep and sound as fell

Upon Eurotas' grassy bank

When the holy bird, that there

Accomplished his predestined will,

From the limbs of Leda sank

But not from her protecting care.

或许可谱曲的歌词

十六、催眠曲

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

亲爱的，愿你的睡眠深沉

你在从前进食之处找到了睡意。

当强有力的帕里斯在一张

金色的床上躺在海伦的怀抱中，

在那第一个黎明找到睡意时，

全世界的警报声对他又能怎样？

睡吧，亲爱的，睡一个好觉，

就象那狂野的特里斯坦所体验，

当时，那迷之药的功用见了效，

雄鹿会奔跑，或者此鹿会蹦跳

在橡树和榉树的枝桠下面，

雄鹿会蹦跳，或者雌鹿会奔跑；

这样一个安稳的睡眠，犹如

降临在欧罗塔斯河岸上的酣睡：

当时那神圣的鸟儿，在那里

完成了他命中注定的意志之后，

从丽达的肢体上滚落下来，

却并没有摆脱她的呵护的关怀。