世上最動人的情話 - 《你的長夏永遠不會凋謝》（Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ）

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《你的長夏永遠不會凋謝》

by William Shakespeare

梁宗岱譯

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day？

我怎能夠把你來比擬作夏天？

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

你不獨比他可愛也比他溫婉；

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

狂風把五月寵愛的嫩蕊作踐，

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

夏天出賃的期限又未免太短；

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

天上的眼睛有時照得太酷烈，

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

他那炳耀的金顏又常遭掩蔽；

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

給機緣或無償的天道所摧殘，

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

沒有芳顏不終於凋殘或銷毀。

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

但你的長夏將永遠不會凋落，

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

也不會損失你這皎潔的紅芳；

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

或死神誇口你在他影裡漂泊，

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

當你在不朽的詩裡與時同長。

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

只要一天有人類，或人有眼睛，

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

這詩將長在，並且賜給你生命。

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