莎士比亞十四行情詩精選（六十八）

　　Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,

When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,

Before these bastard signs of fair were born,

Or durst inhabit on a living brow;

Before the golden tresses of the dead,

The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,

To live a second life on second head;

Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:

In him those holy antique hours are seen,

Without all ornament, itself and true,

Making no summer of another's green,

Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;

And him as for a map doth Nature store,

To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

翻譯：
　　看啊！美就像新陳代謝的花朵，

在它頰上，殘留下遠古的鏽斑；

在這些混濁的痕跡，形成之前，

甚至敢說，它有付生動的眉眼；

早先，若依照殯葬禮儀的規矩，

死者的金髮，按慣例都要被剪；

做成髮套，戴在下一代的頭上，

並以此來表示，對先人的懷念；

在它身上窺見，聖潔的古時代，

樸實無華，沒任何粉飾和裝扮；

展示著與眾不同的，時代風範，

陳舊的外表，奪不走它的鮮豔。

它就像，指點天然寶藏的圖片；

向偽藝術顯示，古文化的燦爛。

推薦理由：這首十四行情詩精選（六十八）是莎士比亞筆下的Sonnet68《古俑》，如果你是莎翁的忠實讀者怎能錯過呢？