Today, I happen to found the story of 袁可嘉 when I read the poem of Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”. I love Yeats poem just I like the novel of 张爱玲. Wow, I refer 3 persons who I admired same time.
The following poem is Yeats and translated by袁可嘉, let’s share this beauty poem now:
The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
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 linet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
茵纳斯弗利岛
我就要动身走了，去茵纳斯弗利岛，
搭起一个小屋子，筑起泥巴房；
支起九行云豆架，一排蜜蜂巢，
独个儿住着，荫荫下听蜂群歌唱。
我就会得到安宁，它徐徐下降，
从朝雾落到蟋蟀歌唱的地方；
午夜是一片闪亮，正午是一片紫光，
傍晚到处飞舞着红雀的翅膀。
我就要动身去了，因为我听到，
那水声日日夜夜轻拍着湖滨；
不管我站在车行道或灰暗的人行道，
都在我心灵的深处听见这声音。
（袁可嘉译：1997：29）
Sometimes the poem is like music or picture waving our hearts and eyes, enjoy it, shortly forgetting the busy work or the boring trifles!
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