W. B. Yeats - Beggar to Beggar Cried 汉译

‘TIME to put off the world and go somewhere  

And find my health again in the sea air,’  

Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,  

‘And make my soul before my pate is bare.’  

‘And get a comfortable wife and house     

To rid me of the devil in my shoes,’  

Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,  

‘And the worse devil that is between my thighs.’  

‘And though I’d marry with a comely lass,  

She need not be too comely—let it pass,’  

Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,  

‘But there’s a devil in a looking-glass.’  

‘Nor should she be too rich, because the rich  

Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,’  

Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, 

‘And cannot have a humorous happy speech.’  

‘And there I’ll grow respected at my ease,  

And hear amid the garden’s nightly peace,’  

Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,  

‘The wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese.’