Shakespeare Sonnet 124

莎士比亞

十四行詩第124首

傅正明譯

要說心中愛，好比國家養的崽，
便是苦命私生子，親爹遺棄成另類，
隻得臣服時神，由他淩辱寵愛――
賤作草中朽株，捧為花中名貴。
心中愛，不一般，不因無常變故生起，
不堪忍受君王假笑臉，不會倒毀，
不會毀於村夫不滿的襲擊，
不會沒有定準任由時髦風亂吹。
心中愛，無懼政令不作異教徒，
絕不僅僅權衡一時利弊，
心中愛，昂首獨立，堪稱大政府，
不隨熱潮發跡，不因陣雨沉溺， 　
　我請曆史作見證：時代愚人 　
　或求善而死，或贖罪而生。

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 124

If my dear love were but the child of state,
It might for Fortune’s bastard be unfathered,
As subject to time’s love or to time’s hate,
Weeds among weeds, or flow’rs with flowers gathered.
No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of thralled discontent,
Whereto th’ inviting time our fashion calls.
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short numb’red hours.
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.
To this I witness call the fools of time,
Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.