Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
When I met a beautiful woman, the fairy garden was deep again
She passed the salley gardens with little snow- white feet.
The beauty has snow toes, crossing the forest
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
Look at me Suitable love, like leaves in spring
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
I am foolish and stubborn, and I live up to this clear statement
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
>Where we stand shoulder to shoulder, a jade hand once brushed
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
Ask me to be fit for the world, like a cattail following a weir< /p>
But I was young and foolish, and now I am full of tears.
It’s a pity that I am foolish and stubborn, but I can only cry!
In the blog "A Translation", the translator said:
This is written by the Irish poet and playwright Yeats (who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature) An ancient poem, which was later set to an Irish bagpipe tune. It was sung by Emi Fujita, Japan's "transparent and beautiful voice of nature", and it was very nice. Both the words and the music are reminiscent of the poem "The Jianjia is green and the white dew is like frost" in The Book of Songs. It is translated as "Secret Garden" in Chinese, probably because the mysterious and ethereal flavor is similar to "Jian Jia". Inspired by Lianbo, he translated it into "The Book of Songs".