叶慈作Brown Penny，傅正明新译

临江仙二首  铜钱卜
叶慈作，傅正明新译

年少不知情味,

老来倍觉辛悲,

闲抛硬币测缘机：

烛心情尚在,抑或早成灰？

去吧去求真爱,

趁她美在韶时。

铜钱会意颂签诗：

春波翻绿意,我手弄涟漪。

爱有弯钩虚象,

人无慧眼真知,

缘分曲折万蚕丝, 

痴男情网里,并不作深思。

直到星辰离去,

雾吞月桂银枝,

铜钱会意又吟诗：

恋花宜早早,知爱总迟迟。

Brown Penny
W. B. Yeats

I whispered, ‘I am too young,’
And then, ‘I am old enough’;
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
‘Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.’
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.

O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.