英文哲理诗歌:外套 A Coat(中英对照)

A Coat
by William Butler Yeats

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.

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外套
威廉•巴特勒•叶芝(著)

我用古老的神话作为衣料，
为我的歌缝制一件外套，
上面铺满刺绣，
层层秘密，从头到脚；
可是愚蠢的人们把它夺去，
穿起来在世人面前炫耀，
似乎是他们亲手织造。
让他们拿走吧，
歌啊，没有衣服更好，
因为裸体行走，
需要胆识更加高超。