玻璃囚香｜莎士比亞十四行詩 5

Those hours that with gentle work did frame
時光以溫柔，雕塑而架構，
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
開此俊俏眼，千百目光留；
Will play the tyrants to the very same
不殊也時光，無情弄此眸，
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
豔冠群芳者，美貌換醜陋。

For never-resting time leads summer on
歲月永不停，催促夏日走，
To hideous winter and confounds him there,
逕向獰惡冬，迷亂失所措，
Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
寒霜封樹液，碧葉盡凋落，
Beauty o’er-snowed and bareness everywhere.
美受風雪覆，荒蕪遍四周。

Then, were not summer’s distillation left
夏日有精華，假使不蒸餾，
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
不留萃取液，玻璃牆內囚，
Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,
美所得結果，與美皆剝奪，
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
回憶美所生，今昔俱失落。

But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
花卻留精華，縱將寒冬受，
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
形色雖有失，本質馥郁活。

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