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为什么我诗中缺乏新的华丽？

没有转调，也没有急骤的变化？

为什么我不学时髦，三心两意，

去追求新奇的修辞，复合的章法？

为什么我老写同样的题目，写不累，

又用著名的旧体裁来创制新篇——

差不多每个字都能说出我是谁，

说出它们的出身和出发的地点？

亲爱的，你得知道我永远在写你，

我的主题是你和爱，永远不变；

我要施展绝技从旧词出新意，

把已经抒发的心意再抒发几遍：

既然太阳每天有新旧的交替，

我的爱也就永远把旧话重提。

Why is my verse

so barren of new pride,

So far from variation

or quick change?

Why with the time

do I not glance aside,

To new-found methods,

and to compounds strange?

Why write I still all one,

ever the same,

And keep invention

in a noted weed,

That every word doth

almost tell my name,

Showing their birth,

and where they did proceed?

O know, sweet love,

I always write of you,

And you and love

are still my argument,

So all my best

is dressing old words new,

Spending again

what is already spent:

For as the sun

is daily new and old,

So is my love

still telling what is told.