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"Down by the Salley Gardens" (''Irish: Gort na Saileán'') is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' in 1889.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Down by the Salley Gardens – tale of unrequited love )〕 ==History== 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."〔Quoted in M.H Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt eds., ''The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2''. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. p. 2024.〕 The "old song" may have been the ballad ''The Rambling Boys of Pleasure'' which contains the following verse:〔http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiSALGARD3;ttSALGARD3;ttSALGARD3.1.html〕 :"It was down by Sally's Garden one evening late I took my way. :'Twas there I spied this pretty little girl, and those words to me sure she did say. :She advised me to take love easy, as the leaves grew on the tree. :But I was young and foolish, with my darling could 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.〔Ford, Robert, ''W.B.Yeats: A Life'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 69〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Down by the Salley Gardens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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