持而不用｜莎士比亞十四行詩 9

Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
莫非君所畏，寡婦令淚泣，
That thou consum’st thyself in single life?
此生消磨盡，獨身守孤寂？
Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
不幸歿此身，血脈無後裔，
The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;
為君天下慟，猶似喪夫婿。

The world will be thy widow and still weep
為君將守寡，天下為淚涕，
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
泣君無肖影，後世無所遺；
When every private widow well may keep,
尋常寡婦家，有子卻承繼，
By children’s eyes, her husband’s shape in mind.
從子雙眸照，良人思念起。

Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
且看此世間，揮霍所侈糜，
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
消長只移手，世間享其趣；
But beauty’s waste hath in the world an end,
美色若暴殄，時盡則凋敝，
And, kept unused, the user so destroys it.
持之若不用，毀於持者矣。

No love toward others in that bosom sits
於眾實無愛，無情懷中居，
That on himself such murd’rous shame commits.
弒身生恥辱，此咎反誅己。

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