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.
翻译：
看啊！美就像新陈代谢的花朵，
在它颊上，残留下远古的锈斑；
在这些混浊的痕迹，形成之前，
甚至敢说，它有付生动的眉眼；
早先，若依照殡葬礼仪的规矩，
死者的金发，按惯例都要被剪；
做成发套，戴在下一代的头上，
并以此来表示，对先人的怀念；
在它身上窥见，圣洁的古时代，
朴实无华，没任何粉饰和装扮；
展示着与众不同的，时代风范，
陈旧的外表，夺不走它的鲜艳。
它就像，指点天然宝藏的图片；
向伪艺术显示，古文化的灿烂。
推荐理由：这首十四行情诗精选（六十八）是莎士比亚笔下的Sonnet68《古俑》，如果你是莎翁的忠实读者怎能错过呢？
