Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 68

　　When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,

　　Before the bastard signs of fair were born,

　　Or durst inhabit on a living brow;

　　Before the golden tresses of the dead,

　　The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,

　　To live a second life on second head;

　　Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:

　　In him those holy antique hours are seen,

　　Without all ornament, itself and true,

　　Making no summer of another's green,

　　Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;

　　And him as for a map doth Nature store,

　　To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

　　這樣，他的朱顏是古代的圖志，

　　那時美開了又謝像今天花一樣，

　　那時冒牌的艷色還未曾出世，

　　或未敢公然高據(jù)活人的額上，

　　那時死者的美發(fā)，墳墓的財產(chǎn)，

　　還未被偷剪下來，去活第二回

　　在第二個頭上②;那時美的死金鬟

　　還未被用來使別人顯得華貴：

　　這圣潔的古代在他身上呈現(xiàn)，

　　赤裸裸的真容，毫無一點鉛華，

　　不用別人的青翠做他的夏天，

　　不掠取舊脂粉妝飾他的鮮花;

　　就這樣造化把他當圖志珍藏，

　　讓假藝術(shù)賞識古代美的真相。