I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
當(dāng)我傳喚對已往事物的記憶
出庭于那馨香的默想的公堂,
我不禁為命中許多缺陷嘆息,
帶著舊恨,重新哭蹉跎的時光;
于是我可以淹沒那枯涸的眼,
為了那些長埋在夜臺的親朋,
哀悼著許多音容俱渺的美艷,
痛哭那情愛久已勾消的哀痛:
于是我為過去的惆悵而惆悵,
并且一一細算,從痛苦到痛苦,
那許多嗚咽過的嗚咽的舊賬,
仿佛還未付過,現(xiàn)在又來償付。
但是只要那刻我想起你,摯友,
損失全收回,悲哀也化為烏有。