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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