When Helen Lived

　　We have cried in our despair

　　That men desert,

　　For some trivial affair

　　Or noisy, insolent sport,

　　Beauty that we have won

　　From bitterest hours;

　　Yet we, had we walked within

　　Those topless towers

　　Where Helen walked with her boy,

　　Had given but as the rest

　　Of the men and women of Troy,

　　A word and a jest.

　　海伦在世时

　　我们曾绝望地呼喊：

　　人们为了一些琐屑的、

　　纷扰无益的事情

　　而放弃了那位从艰难时日里

　　赢得的美女;

　　然而，若我们也缓步在

　　古代的高塔里，

　　看海伦与她的恋人走过，

　　我们也只如特洛伊的男男女女，

　　向她打个招呼，开句玩笑。