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

XVIII. Mad as the Mist and Snow

Bolt and bar the shutter,

For the foul winds blow:

Our minds are at their best this night,

And I seem to know

That everything outside us is

Mad as the mist and snow.

Horace there by Homer stands,

Plato stands below,

And here is Tully's open page.

How many years ago

Were you and I unlettered lads

Mad as the mist and snow?

You ask what makes me sigh, old friend,

What makes me shudder so?

I shudder and I sigh to think

That even Cicero

And many-minded Homer were

Mad as the mist and snow.

或许可谱曲的歌词

十八、象雾象雪一般狂

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

关好闩牢窗门，

因为恶风逞强：

我们的头脑今夜最灵敏，

而我仿佛知详

我们身外的一切都是

象雾象雪一般狂。

贺拉斯与荷马并肩站，

柏拉图站在下方，

这儿还有图里翻开的书页。

多少年月以往

你我曾是不识字的少年，

象雾象雪一般狂？

你问我为何叹息，老朋友，

是什么使我颤栗惶惶？

我颤栗、叹息，是想起

甚至连西塞罗那样

和智慧过人的荷马也曾经

象雾象雪一般狂。