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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