If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
翻譯：
假如，我這笨拙的軀體是思想，
嚴刑和苛律都休想，把我阻攔；
那樣我就能，免遭塵世的留難，
從肢體行為上升到，想象空間。
縱使我站在最遠的，地球那端，
又有什麼實質的，區別和意涵？
空靈的思想，沒有物質能束縛，
它可以，自由飛越大海和高山。
唉！可惜軀體連累了我的思想，
不能追隨心靈意念，翱翔去遠，
我軀體也全由，地球物質組成，
只能無奈地遵從，時光的調遣；
領受未知精華竟是，如此之慢；
只把眼淚作為，榮和辱的標籤。
推薦理由：這首十四行情詩精選（四十四）是莎士比亞筆下的Sonnet44《冪思》，如果你是莎翁的忠實讀者怎能錯過呢？
