茵納斯弗利島

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

by William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there,

of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean-rows will I have there,

a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there,

for peace comes dropping slow

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight's all a glimmer,

and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now,

for always night and day,

I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway,

or on the pavements gray,

I hear it in the deep heart's core.

我就要動身走了，去茵納斯弗利島，

搭起一個小屋子，築起泥巴房；

支起九行芸豆架，一排蜜蜂巢，

獨個兒住着，蔭陰下聽蜂羣歌唱。

我就會得到安寧，它徐徐下降，

從朝露落到蟋蟀歌唱的地方；

午夜是一片閃亮，正午是一片紫光，

傍晚到處飛舞着紅雀的翅膀。

我就要動身走了，因為我聽到

那水聲日日夜夜輕拍着湖濱；

不管我站在車行道或灰暗的人行道，

都在我心靈的深處聽見這聲音。

威廉·巴特勒·葉芝 William Butler Yeats (1865～1939)，亦譯“葉慈”、“耶茨”，愛爾蘭詩人、劇作家，著名的神秘主義者，是“愛爾蘭文藝復興運動”的領袖，也是艾比劇院（Abbey Theatre）的創建者之一，被詩人艾略特譽為"當代最偉大的詩人"。葉芝對戲劇也有濃厚的興趣，先後寫過26部劇本。