莎士比亞十四行情詩精選（三十三）

　　Full many a glorious morning have I seen.

Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,

Kissing with golden face the meadows green,

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;

Anon permit the basest clouds to ride.

With ugly rack on his celestial face,

And from the forlorn world his visage hide,

Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:

Even so my sun one early morn did shine,

With all triumphant splendour on my brow;

But out, alack, he was but one hour mine,

The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.

Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;

Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

翻譯：
　　我看見過，多少次燦爛的清晨，

太陽從那邊山巔上，露出笑臉；

溫柔地親吻著，綠色的芳草灘，

把蒼白的溪水，染成一條金鍊；

然後卻任由那最骯髒的，烏雲，

帶著醜陋，塗抹他神聖的天顏；

把他與這絕望的世界，隔離開，

蒙受著恥辱，走向西方的終點；

同樣，我的愛人曾在那個清晨，

帶著輝煌的光華，來到我面前；

但卻只有片刻，才是我的榮耀，

門第的欄柵，已把他和我隔斷；

就連天上的太陽，都有著黑斑；

我的愛人，哪能沒半點兒缺陷。

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