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Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou own;
Nor shall death brag thou wander in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
By William Shakespeare
十四行诗 第18首
能不能让我来把你比作夏日？
你可是更加可爱，更加温婉；
狂风会吹落五月里盛开的花朵，
夏季的日子又未免太短暂；
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热，
他那金彩的脸色也会被被遮暗；
每一样美呀,总会（离开美丽）凋落，
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残；
但是你永久的夏天决不会凋枯，
你永远不会失去你美的形象；
死神夸不着你在他影子里的踟蹰，
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同长；
只要人类在呼吸，眼睛看得见，
我这诗就活着，使你的生命绵延。
（屠岸 译）