莎士比亚十四行情诗精选（六十四）

　　When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd

　　The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;

　　When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,

　　And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;

　　When I have seen the hungry ocean gain

　　Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,

　　And the firm soil win of the watery main,

　　Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;

　　When I have seen such interchange of state,

　　Or state itself confounded to decay;

　　Ruin hath taught me/ thus to ruminate

　　That Time will come and take my love away.

　　This thought is as a death which cannot choose

　　But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

　　翻译：
　　亲眼目睹，富丽和豪华的骄傲，

　　竟被那时光之手，无情地盖掩；

　　巍峨的高塔，倾刻间沦为碎瓦，

　　连至尊铜像也不免，遭受劫难；

　　我曾见过，那欲壑难填的大海，

　　怎样把王国的海岸，侵蚀吞占；

　　也曾见过汪洋，又被陆地填满，

　　苍海桑田，得失只在须臾之间；

　　经历那些王国的，其兴也勃焉，

　　或者那些朝代的，其亡也忽焉；

　　兴废的古训，让我无限地感慨：

　　“永失我爱之时，终究不可避免”

　　象某种，无法选择的死亡理念；

　　再恐惧，也只能哭着与它照面。

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