W. B. Yeats - A Prayer on Going into my House 汉译

God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage  

And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled,  

No table, or chair or stool not simple enough  

For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant  

That I myself for portions of the year      

May handle nothing and set eyes on nothing  

But what the great and passionate have used  

Throughout so many varying centuries.  

We take it for the norm; yet should I dream  

Sinbad the sailor’s brought a painted chest,  

Or image, from beyond the Loadstone Mountain   

That dream is a norm; and should some limb of the devil  

Destroy the view by cutting down an ash  

That shades the road, or setting up a cottage  

Planned in a government office, shorten his life, 

Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.