为同学们的青春岁月献上一曲 “Down By the Salley Garden”,它是根据诗人叶芝的同名诗歌谱曲而成,这首歌韵律优美,感情细腻,象征意味浓郁,明显受到英国浪漫主义和法国象征主义诗歌的影响。叶芝曾注释道“这首诗是根据斯莱戈县巴利索戴尔村里一个经常独自吟唱的老农妇记不完全的三行旧歌词改写而成的”。
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Down by the Salley Gardens
My love and I did meet
She passed the Salley Gardens
With little snow-white feet
She bid me take love easy
As the leaves grow on the tree
But I being young and foolish
With her did not agree
In a field by the river
My love and I did stand
And on my leaning shoulder
She laid her snow-white hand
She bid me take life easy
As the grass grows on the weirs
But I was young and foolish
And now I am full of tears