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Sonnet 63   Against my love shall be as I am now,  十二言

 Against my love shall be as I am now,

避免我的愛人，像我現在一樣，
With Time's injurious hand crushed and o'erworn;

任由時間損害之手磨蝕耗損；
When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow

當時間已經讓額頭皺紋充滿，
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn

削弱了他的活力；當他從青春
Hath travelled on to age's steepy night;

之晨，跋涉到暮晚維艱之夜；
And all those beauties whereof now he's king

他當權時所擁有的這些美俊
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,

正在消失，或已經離開了視野，
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;

時間偷走了他青春時的寶蘊；
For such a time do I now fortify

我現在對這摧毀年齡的殘忍
Against confounding age's cruel knife,

時間刀刃設防，確保他未減損
That he shall never cut from memory

在我記憶裡美麗的甜蜜愛情，
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:

即使切斷了我愛人的生命：
　His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,

他的豐盈將在這些詩裡現陳，
　And they shall live, and he in them still green.

且詩歌長存，他也在詩裡長青。