佚名

Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet;

She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow white feet.

She bid me take love easy， as the leaves grow on the tree;

But I， being young and foolish， with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand，

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow？鄄white hand.

She bid me take life easy， as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish， and now I am full of tears.

斯遇佳人，仙苑重深。

玉人雪趾，往渡穿林。

矚我適愛，如葉逢春。

我愚且頑，負此明言。

斯水之畔，與彼曾佇，

比肩之處，玉手曾拂。

囑我適世，如荇隨堰。

惜我愚頑，唯余泣嘆！

本詩節(jié)選自詩人威廉·巴特勒·葉芝的詩歌Down by the Salley Garden，最初翻譯為《柳園里》，是葉芝早年的詩作。葉芝早年的詩歌韻律優(yōu)美，感情細膩，辭藻華麗，象征意味濃郁，明顯受到英國浪漫主義和法國象征主義詩歌的影響。葉芝曾為此詩做過下列注釋：“這首詩是根據(jù)斯萊戈縣巴利索戴爾村里一個經(jīng)常獨自吟唱的老農(nóng)婦記不完全的三行舊歌詞改寫而成的。”