美貌覆上冰雪，到处一片凄凉 | 莎翁十四行诗第五首

莎士比亚十四行诗

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时间，以巧妙的手艺创造

那众人瞩目的可爱的容颜，

有一日要对它变得非常粗暴，

把那绝世之姿变成丑陋不堪；

永无休止的时间引导着夏季

到可爱的冬天，就在那里把它毁伤：

浆液被寒霜凝结，绿叶全无踪迹，

美貌覆上冰雪，到处一片凄凉；

如在夏季不曾提炼香花的精华，

把那香水密封在玻璃瓶里，

美得芬芳和美得本身将一起被糟蹋。

本身无存，也没有什么可供回忆。

花儿一经提炼，纵然遇到冬天，

只是花颜失色，其芬芳永在人间。

Those hours, that with

gentle work did frame
        Thelovely gaze

where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants

to the very same

And that unfair

which fairly doth excel;

Fornever-resting time

leads summer on

To hideous winter,

and confounds him there;

Sap checked with frost,

and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o'er-snowed

and bareness every where:

Then were not

summer's distillation left,

A liquid prisoner

pent in walls of glass,

Beauty's effect with beauty

were bereft,

Nor it,nor no remembrance

what it was:

But flowers distill'd,

though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show;

their substance still lives sweet.