莎士比亚十四行情诗精选（六十八）

　　Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,

　　When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,

　　Before these bastard signs of fair were born,

　　Or durst inhabit on a living brow;

　　Before the golden tresses of the dead,

　　The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,

　　To live a second life on second head;

　　Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:

　　In him those holy antique hours are seen,

　　Without all ornament, itself and true,

　　Making no summer of another's green,

　　Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;

　　And him as for a map doth Nature store,

　　To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

　　翻译：
　　看啊！美就像新陈代谢的花朵，

　　在它颊上，残留下远古的锈斑；

　　在这些混浊的痕迹，形成之前，

　　甚至敢说，它有付生动的眉眼；

　　早先，若依照殡葬礼仪的规矩，

　　死者的金发，按惯例都要被剪；

　　做成发套，戴在下一代的头上，

　　并以此来表示，对先人的怀念；

　　在它身上窥见，圣洁的古时代，

　　朴实无华，没任何粉饰和装扮；

　　展示着与众不同的，时代风范，

　　陈旧的外表，夺不走它的鲜艳。

　　它就像，指点天然宝藏的图片；

　　向伪艺术显示，古文化的灿烂。

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