W. B. Yeats - The Municipal Gallery Re-visited (II) 汉译

An Abbot or Archbishop with an upraised hand

Blessing the Tricolour. “This is not,” I say,

“The dead Ireland of my youth, but an Ireland

The poets have imagined, terrible and gay.”

Before a woman’s portrait suddenly I stand,

Beautiful and gentle in her Venetian way.

I met her all but fifty years ago

For twenty minutes in some studio.

重访市立美术馆 （二）

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

一位举手祝福三色旗的修道院住持

或大主教。“这不是，”我说

“我青年时代的僵死的爱尔兰，而是

诗人们想像的爱尔兰，可怕而欢乐。”

在一个女人的肖像前我突然仁立；

妆扮成她那威尼斯风格，美丽与温和。

我在差不多五十年前与她相逢。

在一间画室里一起度过二十分钟。