W. B. Yeats - Two Songs Rewritten for the Tune's Sake (I) 汉译

My Paistin Finn is my sole desire,

And I am shrunken to skin and bone,

For all my heart has had for its hire

Is what I can whistle alone and alone.

                Oro, oro!

To-morrow night I will break down the door.

What is the good of a man and he

Alone and alone, with a speckled shin?

I would that I drank with my love on my knee

Between two barrels at the inn.

                Oro, oro!

To-morrow night I will break down the door.

Alone and alone nine nights I lay

Between two bushes under the rain;

I thought to have whistled her down that way,

I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.

                Oro, oro!

To-morrow night I will break down the door.