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 worlds eyes

As though theyd wrought it.

Song, let them take it,

For theres more enterprise

In walking naked.

外套

威廉巴特勒葉芝(著)

我用古老的神話作為衣料，

為我的歌縫制一件外套，

上面鋪滿刺繡，

層層秘密，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，

因為裸體行走，

需要膽識更加高超。