弄燭處處愁夕陽景

哦，多麼緻命的思维！它只能夠

That Time will come and take my love away.

被時光的手绝不留情地磨滅；

And the firm soil win of the watery main,

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,

Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,

失既變成了得，得又變成了失；

連不朽的銅也不免一場浩劫；

Or state itself confounded to decay;

When I have seen such interchange of state,

This thought is as a death, which cannot choose

或者連廢興一旦也化為烏有；

噹我看見這所有擾攘和廢興，

When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed

噹巍峨的塔我眼見淪為碎瓦，

毀滅便教我再三這樣地检查：

噹我眼見前代的富麗跟豪華

The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;

Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 64

汪洋的水又漸漸被陸地覆蓋，

時光終要跑來把我的愛帶走。

Increasing store with loss and loss with store;

一步一步把岸上的彊土侵蝕，

噹我眼見那慾壑難填的大海

But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced