W. B. Yeats - Two Years Later 汉译

Has no one said those daring

Kind eyes should be more learn’d?

Or warned you how despairing

The moths are when they are burned?

I could have warned you; but you are young,

So we speak a different tongue.

O you will take whatever’s offered

And dream that all the world’s a friend,

Suffer as your mother suffered,

Be as broken in the end.

But I am old and you are young,

And I speak a barbarous tongue.

两年以后

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝

难道不曾有人说，那些

大胆的眼睛学识应更广？

或者警告你，飞蛾

遭焚时是多么地绝望？

我本可以警告你；但你太年轻，

所以我们说一种不同的语言。

呵，你将接受别人奉赠的一切，

梦想整个世界是一个朋友，

象你母亲一样忍受折磨，

到最后一样心冷体瘦。

但是我年老而你年轻，

我说一口没文化的语言。