(It was) down by the Salley Gardens, my love and I did meet.

She crossed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree,

But I was young and foolish, and with her did not agree.

In a field down 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 am full of tears.

Down by the Salley Gardens, my love and I did meet.

She crossed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree,

But I was young and foolish, and with her did not agree.

이곡은 아일랜드의 대문호이며 노벨문학상을 수상한

윌리엄 버틀러 예이츠가 남긴 노트에 의하면

어느 한 늙은 농부가 흥얼거리던 3행으로된 불완전한 오래된 민요를 

재구성 할려는 시도라고 한다

아마도 그 농부가 부르던 노래는  아래와 같은 가사를 

가지고 있는 The Rambling Boys of Pleasure 일것이다.

History[edit]

Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballisodare,Sligo, who often sings them to herself."^[2] The "old song" may have been the ballad The Rambling Boys of Pleasure^[3] which contains the following verse:

"Down by yon flowery garden my love and I we first did meet.

I took her in my arms and to her I gave kisses sweet

She bade me take life easy just as the leaves fall from the tree.

But I being young and foolish, with my darling did not agree."

The similarity to the first verse of the Yeats version is unmistakable and would suggest that this was indeed the song Yeats remembered the old woman singing. The rest of the song, however, is quite different.

Yeats's original title, "An Old Song Re-Sung", reflected his debt to The Rambling Boys of Pleasure. It first appeared under its present title when it was reprinted in Poems in 1895.^[4]

Poem[edit]

William Buttler Yeatz 가 오래된 민요의 멜로디에 시를 써서 완성한 것

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 would 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 am full of tears.

젊은시절의 열정도 필요하겠지만

곡식과 과일이 익을때까지 노력하며 가을에 이르러 추수를 하듯이

사랑에도 인내하며 때를 기다려야하는 지혜를 가지라는 시인의 메시지가

읽혀지는 시라고 볼수가 있겠지요

William Buttler Yeatz의 시로서 한국에서도 몇년전부터 주로 팝페라 가수들에 의해

소개되어 제법 알려진곡이지요