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凯撒,他们的情形真是困难,

Trowth, Caesar, whyles they're fash't enough:

A cottar howkin in a sheugh,

Wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke,

Baring a quarry, an'sic like;

Hi wife, he thus sustains,

An' when the gentry's life I saw,

What way poor bodies liv'd ava.

——(英)Robert Burns

凯撒

诚实的乐斯,我常常想问,

A smytrie o' wee duddie weans,

An' nought but his han's daurk, to keep

Them right an tight in thack an rape.

——(英)Robert Burns

乐斯

你们穷家狗怎样把日子来混;

绅士们的生活我倒清楚,

就不知穷哥们怎样把岁月来度。

——王佐良 译

LUATH