失竊的孩子

《失竊的孩子》（英語：The Stolen Child）是愛爾蘭詩人威廉·巴特勒·葉芝所創作的詩，收錄於1889年的《葦間風》（The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems）。

內容
:Where dips the rocky highland
:Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
:There lies a leafy island
:Where flapping herons wake
:The drowsy water rats;
:There we've hid our faery vats,
:Full of berrys
:And of reddest stolen cherries.
:Come away, O human child!
:To the waters and the wild
:With a faery, hand in hand.
:For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

:Where the wave of moonlight glosses
:The dim gray sands with light,
:Far off by furthest Rosses
:We foot it all the night,
:Weaving olden dances
:Mingling hands and mingling glances
:Till the moon has taken flight;
:To and fro we leap
:And chase the frothy bubbles,
:While the world is full of troubles
:And anxious in its sleep.
:Come away, O human child!
:To the waters and the wild
:With a faery, hand in hand,
:For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

:Where the wandering water gushes
:From the hills above Glen-Car,
:In pools among the rushes
:That scarce could bathe a star,
:We seek for slumbering trout
:And whispering in their ears
:Give them unquiet dreams;
:Leaning softly out
:From ferns that drop their tears
:Over the young streams.
:Come away, O human child!
:To the waters and the wild
:With a faery, hand in hand,
:For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

:Away with us he's going,
:The solemn-eyed -
:He'll hear no more the lowing
:Of the calves on the warm hillside
:Or the kettle on the hob
:Sing peace into his breast,
:Or see the brown mice bob
:Round and round the oatmeal chest
:For he comes the human child
:To the waters and the wild
:With a faery, hand in hand
:From a world more full of weeping than he can understand

中譯
:那兒，一座綠蔭的小島上蒼鷺振翅，
:驚醒了懨懨的河鼠；
:那兒，我們在魔桶裏藏進了滿滿的漿果，
:還有偷來的紅豔豔的櫻桃。
:來吧，人間的孩子，
:到水邊和荒野裏來吧，
:和一個精靈手牽手吧，
:這世上哭聲太多，你不懂呀。

:那兒，有月光如波浪般跳動，
:幽暗的沙灘罩着迷濛的彩色，
:在最遠最遠的玫瑰園裏有我們整夜整夜的步履。
:我們交織着古老的舞步，
:雙手和眼神也交錯如旋舞，
:直到月亮離去。
:我們來來回回地跳躍着，
:追逐那些晶亮的泡沫。
:而你們的世界卻充滿了煩惱，
:在睡眠裏也衝突着無盡的焦躁。
:來吧，人間的孩子，
:到水邊和荒野裏來吧，
:和一個精靈手牽手吧，
:這世上哭聲太多，你不懂呀。

:那兒，漂泊的流水
:從葛蘭卡的山坡衝下，
:藏進蘆葦小小的縫隙，
:容不得一顆星星的游泳。
:我們尋找着熟睡的鮭魚，然後喃喃在它們的耳邊，
:騷擾着它們的夢境。
:我們倚靠在蕨草上，看那蕨草把淚水滴落進年輕的溪流。
:來吧，人間的孩子，
:到水邊和荒野裏來吧，
:和一個精靈手牽手吧，
:這世上哭聲太多，你不懂呀。

:那個眼神莊重的孩子，
:正和我們一起走着，
:他再也聽不到温暖的山坡上牛犢稚嫩的呼叫，
:也聽不到水壺在爐子上的鳴叫，
:那聲音曾安撫過他的心靈，
:也聽不到了老鼠圍着箱子的蹦跳；
:因為他來了，
:人間的孩子到水邊和荒野來了，
:和第一個精靈手牽手了，
:這世上哭聲太多，你不懂的。

參考資料

• R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: a Life, Oxford University Press 1998 ISBN 0-19-288085-3 pages 56, 75-76
• Richard J Finneran (ed) Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies XII, 1994 ISBN 0-472-10614-7 pages 91–92
• Michael Bell, Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Centuries ISBN 0-521-58016-1 pages 44–59
• Terence Brown, The Life of W.B. Yeats Blackwell Publishing 2001 ISBN 0-631-22851-9 pages 9, 19, 66
• William A. Dumbletone, Ireland: Life and Land in Literature SUNY Press 1994 ISBN 0-87395-783-0 Pages 93–95, 129, 135-138

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