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Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats 作者:W.B.叶芝 英国)

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Baile And Aillinn

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And over the tiller and the prow,

But a wild apple hid the grass

Therefore it is but little news

That all this life can give us is

Or birds lost in the one clear space

Where wild bees hive on the Great Plain.

Those other two; for never yet

How could we be so soon content,

And the Brown Bull had not yet come,

Being tumbled and blown about

They wrote on tablets of thin board,

And Findrias and Falias,

When the long wars for the White Horn

For this young girl and this young man

They blossomed to immortal mirth.

Heaven knows what calamity;

Before his eyes, he has tears for none,

In the hid place, being crazed by love.

Who when night thickens are afloat

Aillinn, who was King Lugaidhs heir.

Are trodden and broken hy the herds,

To many-pastured Muirthemne,

"From heat and cold and wind and wave;

And they have news of Deirdres eyes,

Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own land

With somebody in your own land.

Wandering from broken street to street

And the grey bird with crooked bill

ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the

Under a cairn of sleepy stone

Now had that old gaunt crafty one,

The north wind tumbles to and fro

What were our praise to them? They eat

That old man climbed; the day grew dim;

With: ""You must home again, and wed

Or the door-pillars of one house,

She fell and died of the heart-break.

He ran and laughed until he came

Where the Hound of Uladh sat before

His face bowed low to weep the end

He always wept them on that day,

Young Baile Honey Mouth, whom some

Of the harpers daughter if they will,

After the deaths of many men,

And poets found, old writers say,

Awaken wanderings of light air

Of morning light in a dim sky;

A yew tree where his body lay;

Baile and Aillinn would be wed.

Like them that are no more alive.

When they had come to the matriage-bed,

Two swans came flying up to him,

About the windy water-side,

They know undying things, for they

All the love stories that they knew.

An old man caught the horses head

Forgotten at the threshing-place;

Gathering his cloak about him, mn

Or mice in the one wheaten sheaf

Tall, proud and ruddy, and light wings

And waving white wings to and fro

As though their music were enough

Although he is carrying stone, but two

Our hearts can Fear the voices chide.

Baile And Aillinn

Although he had a squirrels eye.

For all her wanderings over-sea;

<1We hold, because our memory is

But the gods long ago decreed

Rode from the country of her kin,

And pinches among hail and snow?>1

Was carried to the goodly house

That Edain, Midhirs wife, had wove

You put such folly in our heads

Of harpers and young men; and they

The brazen pillars of his door,

Or the two strings that made one sound

That out of sight is out of mind.

Some god or king had made the laws

The towery gates of Gorias,

Has lover lived, but longed to wive

A better time had come again

Made of the apple and the yew,

Where Aillinn rode with waiting-maids,

Their love was never drowned in care

that their hearts were broken and they died.

And with low murmuring laughing speech

A childs laughter, a womans kiss.

Than any whose unhappiness

Because a lovers heart s worn out,

Before my thoughts begin to run

On the heir of Uladh, Buans son,

With its sweet blossom where hers was,

No common love is to our mind,

Bailes heart was broken in two;

He had ragged long grass-coloured hair;

For they should clip and clip again

While over them birds of Aengus fly,

Rode out of Emain with a band

Baile and Aillinns marriage-bed,

That all things fell out happily,

And being in good heart, because

And our poor kate or Nan is less

Grow gentle without sorrowing,

But where it could see her every day.

A young man cried and kissed her hand,

In Muirthemne, and over it

Because their hodies had grown old.

That is bad enough to be true, is true,

And will believe that anything

Before her love-worn heart had broke.

Where that wise harpers finger ran.

Though nothing troubles the great streams

Alighted on the windy grass.

The Hill Seat of Laighen, because

That have one shadow on the ground;

And now that Honey-Mouth is laid

"Anothers hurried off, cried he,

And when no face grew piteous

Dreamed of the hands that would unlace

To tell him how the girl Aillinn

Scale rubbing scale where light is dim

And that long fighting at the ford,

Linked by a gold chain each to each,

Imagined, as they struck the way

They come where some huge watcher is,

Had chosen a husband anywhere

And in the light bodies of birds

Ah! wise, my heart knows well how wise.>1

They have heaped the stones above his grave

For athough years had passed away

On dappled skins in a glass boat,

But Id have bird and rush forget

among the dead, told to each a story of the others death, so

Who know the way that Naoise went?

""O lady, wed with one of us;

Their bodices in some dim place

I run to Baile Honey-Mouth,

But fruit that is of precious stone,

That put this hurry in my shoes.

That runner said: "I am from the south;

About the time when Christ was born,

And old and young men rode with her:

That held the land together there,

Have happiness without an end,

Cauldron and spear and stone and sword,

For all that country had been astir

Of the harpers daughter and her friend

When they had ridden a little way

But the grey rush under the wind

What shall I call them? fish that swim,

And you are more high of heart than she,

Imagining and pondering

Remember Deirdre and her man;

Among the giant kings whose hoard,

With all this crying inthe wind,

Awoke the harp-strings long ago.

And he, being laid upon green boughs,

No waiting-maid should ever spread

Because they have made so good a friend.

Were hovering over the harp-strings

For any gentle thing she spake,

By a broad water-lily leaf;

Beloved, I am not afraid of her.

If anybody half as fair

And long-forgotten Murias,

Nor thegrey rush when the wind is high,

And tremble with their love and kiss.

To that high hill the herdsmen name

Yet they that know all things hut know

Who was it put so great a scorn

In thegrey reeds that night and morn

From the holy orchards, where there is none

To stir their coverlet and their hair.

They found an old man running there:

Quiets wild heart, like daily meat;

They knew him: his changed body was

He had knees that stuck out of his hose;

And harpers, pacing with high head

Of this or that thing, nor grew cold

Who amid leafy lights and shades

They know all wonders, for they pass

Or apples of the sun and moon.

For on that day they had been betrayed;

Then seeing that he scarce had spoke

For whom the cairns but heaped anew.

To make the savage heart of love

And when we walk with Kate or Nan

And that mild woman of the south,

Called rather Baile Little-Land,

I HARDLY hear the curlew cry,

Baile, that was of Rurys seed.

Wander where earth withers away,

Far out under a windless sky;

<1Let rush and hird cry out their fill

By its own blind imagining,

rave such long memories that they still

Sofull of that thing and of this,

He had puddle-water in his shoes;

And there, for all that fools had said,

Baile, who had the honey mouth;

Being forbid to marry on earth,

In old times among the clouds of the air.

Or two sweet blossoming apple-boughs

He had half a cloak to keep him dry,

In changeless Ogham letters writ -

Was robbed before earth gave the wheat;

But light from the pale stars, and gleams

Or, it may be, the eyelids of one eye,

She is not wiser nor lovelier,

Who being lovely was so wise -

<1O wandering hirds and rushy beds,

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