没有变化；——

has not altered; -

一块使人心旷神怡的绿地，

a place as kind as it is green,

是我见过的最绿的地方，

the greenest place I've never seen.

每个名字是一首歌。

Every name is a tune.

谴责不会改变

Denunciations do not affect

犯人；殴打也不会，但是

the culprit; nor blows, but it

不和他说话，就是对他最大的惩罚。

is torture to him to not be spoken to.

他们是自然而然的——

They're natural,-

外套，像维纳斯

the coat, like Venus'

镶嵌着星星的斗篷，

mantle lined with stars,

扣子一直扣到脖子下，——从不使用的袖子是崭新的。

buttoned close at the neck,-the sleeves new from disuse.

如果在爱尔兰，

If in Ireland

他们在紧急时刻向后弹奏竖琴， 

they play the harp backward at need,

在正午，收集

and gather at midday the seed

蕨的种子，躲避

of the fern, eluding

他们“披着铁甲的巨人，”或许真的存在

their 'giants all covered with iron,' might

帮助遗忘冷酷

there be fern seed for unlearn-

并恢复魅力的

ing obduracy and for reinstating

蕨类种子？

the enchantment?

在爱尔兰的故事中， 

Hindered characters

受到阻挠的人物

seldom have mothers

很少有母亲，不过他们都有祖母。

in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

正是在爱尔兰；

It was Irish;

一场比赛而非一场婚礼被举行，

a match not a marriage was made

当我的曾曾祖母

when my great great grandmother'd said

带着土生土长的分裂天赋

with native genius for

说，“虽然你的求婚者

disunion, 'Although your suitor be

很完美，一个缺陷

perfection, one objection

就足以否定一切；他不是

is enough; he is not

爱尔兰人。”哄骗

Irish.' Outwitting

仙女，帮助复仇女神，

the fairies, befriending the furies,

任何一个人都可以

whoever again

反复说，“我将永不放弃，”却从没意识到

and again says, 'I'll never give in,' never sees

你并不自由，

that you're not free

除非你屈服于

until you've been made captive by

最高信仰，——你认为

supreme belief,- credulity

这是盲从？七月中旬， 

you say? When large dainty

当夸张优雅的手指

fingers tremblingly divide the wings

颤抖着，用一根针 

of the fly for mid-July

分开苍蝇的翅膀，用孔雀尾包裹它，

with a needle and wrap it with peacock-tail,

或者系上羊毛和

or tie wool and

秃鹰的翅膀，它们的骄傲，

buzzard's wing, their pride,

像巫婆的骄傲，

like the enchanter's

是谨慎，而不是疯狂。协调的手分开

is in care, not madness. Concurring hands divide

亚麻编织的锦缎

flax for damask

当它被爱尔兰的天气漂白时，

that when bleached by Irish weather

有银色麂皮似的

has the silvered chamois-leather

湿润紧致的

water-tightness of a

外表。绞丝金项圈和新月形的

skin. Twisted torcs and gold new-moon-shaped

金配饰，不是珠宝，

lunulae aren't jewelry

如同紫珊瑚的金钟树。爱尔兰——

like the purple-coral fuchsia-tree's. Eire-

海雀

the guillemot

如此整洁，还有荒地上的

so neat and the hen

母鸡和

of the heath and the

发出竖琴般甜蜜无情的预言的红雀？那么

linnet spinet-sweet-bespeak relentlessness? Then

他们相对于我而言，

they are to me

正如中了魔法变成一只牡鹿的

like enchanted Earl Gerald who

杰拉尔德伯爵，相对于

changed himself into a stag, to

一只绿眼睛的

a great green-eyed cat of

大山猫。无用

the mountain. Discommodity makes

使他们被视而不见；他们已经

them invisible; they've dis-

消失了。爱尔兰人说你的困难是他们的

appeared. The Irish say your trouble is their

困难，你的快乐

trouble and your

是他们的快乐？我希望

joy their joy? I wish

我能相信它；

I could believe it;

我很困惑，我不满足，我是爱尔兰人。

I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.