W. B. Yeats - Colonel Martin (VII) 汉译

And there at all street corners

A man with a pistol stood,

And the rich man had paid them well

To shoot the Colonel dead;

But they threw down their pistols

And all men heard them swear

That they could never shoot a man

Did all that for the poor.

The Colonel went out sailing.

马丁上校（七）

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

在所有街道的拐角处

都站着一个拿枪的汉子，

那阔佬已付给他们丰厚的报酬，

让他们把上校射死；

可是他们扔下他们的枪，

所有人都听见他们发誓说

他们决不能刺杀这样一个人，

他为穷人做了这一切。

上校外出去航海。