莎士比亞十四行情詩精選（七十一）

　　No longer mourn for me when I am dead.

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell.

Give warning to the world that I am fled.

From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:

Nay, if you read this line, remember not,

The hand that writ it, for I love you so,

That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,

If thinking on me then should make you woe.

O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,

When I perhaps compounded am with clay,

Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;

But let your love even with my life decay;

Lest the wise world should look into your moan,

And mock you with me after I am gone.

翻譯：
　　你會聽到，我的喪鍾沉鬱敲響，

不要為我哭得比它，更為悲慘；

宣告，我已離開這邪惡的世界，

就要和最齷齪的蛆蟲，去作伴；

我的摯友啊！若你再讀這些詩，

千萬不要想起這是，誰的手卷；

如果温情悼念，會導致你傷感，

我寧願在你的記憶中，被忘淡；

切記！當我已零落成泥的時候，

如果你還在，翻閲我這些詩篇；

請別再提及我那，可憐的名字，

就讓你的崇拜，伴隨我到終點；

別讓狡黠世人，看穿你的哀歎；

免得在我身後，把你當作笑談。

推薦理由：這首十四行情詩精選（七十一）是莎士比亞筆下的Sonnet71《遺願》，如果你是莎翁的忠實讀者怎能錯過呢？