十四行詩 Sonnet 64
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
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.
當我眼見前代的富麗和豪華
被時光的手毫不留情地磨滅；
當巍峨的塔我眼見淪爲碎瓦，
連不朽的銅也不免一場浩劫；
當我眼見那慾壑難填的大海
一步一步把岸上的疆土侵蝕，
汪洋的水又漸漸被陸地覆蓋，
失既變成了得，得又變成了失；
當我看見這一切擾攘和廢興，
或者連廢興一旦也化爲烏有；
毀滅便教我再三這樣地反省：
時光終要跑來把我的愛帶走。
哦，多麼致命的思想！它只能夠
哭着去把那刻刻怕失去的佔有。
