Shakespeare Sonnet 124

莎士比亚

十四行诗第124首

傅正明译

要说心中爱，好比国家养的崽，
便是苦命私生子，亲爹遗弃成另类，
只得臣服时神，由他凌辱宠爱――
贱作草中朽株，捧为花中名贵。
心中爱，不一般，不因无常变故生起，
不堪忍受君王假笑脸，不会倒毁，
不会毁于村夫不满的袭击，
不会没有定准任由时髦风乱吹。
心中爱，无惧政令不作异教徒，
绝不仅仅权衡一时利弊，
心中爱，昂首独立，堪称大政府，
不随热潮发迹，不因阵雨沉溺， 　
　我请历史作见证：时代愚人 　
　或求善而死，或赎罪而生。

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.