William Shakespeare - The Sonnets (71) 汉译

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No longer mourn for me when I am dead,

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:

Nay if you read this line, remember not,

The hand that writ it, for I love you so,

That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,

If thinking on me then should make you woe.

O if (I say) you look upon this verse,

When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay,

Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;

But let your love even with my life decay.

Lest the wise world should look into your moan,

And mock you with me after I am gone.

 

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我死去的时候别再为我悲哀，

当你听见那沉重凄惨的葬钟

普告给全世界说我已经离开

这龌龊世界去伴最龌龊的虫：

不呀，当你读到这诗，别再记起

那写它的手；因为我爱到这样，

宁愿被遗忘在你甜蜜的心里，

如果想起我会使你不胜哀伤。

如果呀，我说，如果你看见这诗，

那时候或许我已经化作泥土，

连我这可怜的名字也别提起，

但愿你的爱与我的生命同腐。

　　免得这聪明世界猜透你的心，

　　在我死去后把你也当作笑柄。

 

（梁宗岱 译）