英文哲理詩歌:外套 A Coat(中英對照)

A Coat
by William Butler Yeats

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.

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外套
威廉•巴特勒•葉芝(著)

我用古老的神話作爲衣料，
爲我的歌縫製一件外套，
上面鋪滿刺繡，
層層祕密，從頭到腳；
可是愚蠢的人們把它奪去，
穿起來在世人面前炫耀，
似乎是他們親手織造。
讓他們拿走吧，
歌啊，沒有衣服更好，
因爲裸體行走，
需要膽識更加高超。