W. B. Yeats - A Woman Young and Old (IV)汉译

IV. HER TRIUMPH

I did the dragon's will until you came

Because I had fancied love a casual

Improvisation, or a settled game

That followed if I let the kerchief fall:

Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings

And heavenly music if they gave it wit;

And then you stood among the dragon-rings.

I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it

And broke the chain and set my ankles free,

Saint George or else a pagan Perseus;

And now we stare astonished at the sea,

And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.

一个女人的青年和老年

四、她的胜利

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

我遵从龙的意愿直到你来临，

因为我原以为爱是接下来

一个随意的即兴节目，或固定

游戏，如果我让头巾落下来：

给那瞬间以翅膀和天国音乐的那些

功绩如果也给它以智慧就最佳；

于是你站立到龙的环绕中间。

我由于疯狂而嘲笑，但你征服了它，

砸断了锁链，把我的脚踝解放，

圣乔治，不然就是异教的珀尔修斯；

现在我们惊讶地凝望着海洋，

一只奇异非凡的鸟儿朝着我们惊啼。