Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these 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.
翻譯：
看啊！美就像新陳代謝的花朵，
在它頰上，殘留下遠古的鏽斑；
在這些混濁的痕跡，形成之前，
甚至敢說，它有付生動的眉眼；
早先，若依照殯葬禮儀的規矩，
死者的金髮，按慣例都要被剪；
做成髮套，戴在下一代的頭上，
並以此來表示，對先人的懷念；
在它身上窺見，聖潔的古時代，
樸實無華，沒任何粉飾和裝扮；
展示著與眾不同的，時代風範，
陳舊的外表，奪不走它的鮮豔。
它就像，指點天然寶藏的圖片；
向偽藝術顯示，古文化的燦爛。
推薦理由：這首十四行情詩精選（六十八）是莎士比亞筆下的Sonnet68《古俑》，如果你是莎翁的忠實讀者怎能錯過呢？
