薔薇不凋｜莎士比亞十四行詩 1

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
世間形最美，吾人盼生衍，
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
美有薔薇生，凋零永不見；
But, as the riper should by time decease,
熟年將老時，身歿隨大限，
His tender heir might bear his memory.
嫩稚其後嗣，肖形懷思念。

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
然而君自戀，明眸中流連，
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
消耗己輜糧，燃燒生火焰，
Making a famine where abundance lies,
反使富庶身，飢荒貧乏源，
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
對己成仇敵，殘忍無情面。

Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
君乃活力鮮，裝飾此世間，
And only herald to the gaudy spring
預告唯君傳，報春燦爛前，
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
反自花苞中，所含君埋掩，
And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.
小鬼愈吝慳，反而愈暴殄。

Pity the world, or else this glutton be—
勸君憫天下，不然饕餮變，
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
吞沒天下份，墳與己共嚥。

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