当你老了(叶芝的诗)

每每读这首诗时,心里总是一种深深的思索.

when you are old and grey and full of sleep
and nodding by the fire,take down this book
and slowly read,and dream of the soft look
your eye had once,andoff their shadows deep
how many love your moments of the glad grace
and loved your beauty with love flase or true
but one man loved this pilgrim soul in you
and loved the sorrows of your changing face
and bending down beside the glowing bars
murmur,a little sadly,how loved fled　

and paced upon the mountains overhead
and hid his face amid a crowd of stars!

当你老了，头白了，睡思昏沉，

炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌，

慢慢读，回想你过去眼神的柔和，

回想它们过去的浓重的阴影；

多少人爱你年轻欢畅的时候，

爱慕你的美丽、假意或真心，

只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂，

爱你衰老了的脸上的痛苦的皱纹；

垂下头来，在红光闪耀的炉子旁，

凄然地轻轻诉说那爱情的消逝，

在头顶的山上它缓缓踱着步子，

在一群星星中间隐藏着脸庞。