彼方之境
文/秀實 圖/吳祚昌
愛爾蘭詩人威廉‧巴特勒‧葉慈(William Butler Yeats,1865—1939)年輕時寫過一首〈走過柳園〉(Down by the Salley Garden)。全詩如下(裘小龍譯):
走過柳園,我遇上我的愛,
她正走過柳園,纖足雪白。
她要我自然地相愛,像綠葉生 於樹枝,
但是我年輕而愚蠢,她的話我 不同意。
Down by the Salley gardens my love and I did meet,
She passed the Salley gardens with little snow- white feet,
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree,
But I, being young and…