英文哲理詩歌:外套 A Coat

A Coat
by William Butler Yeats

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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.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。