Sonnet 116
十四行诗·第一一六首
William Shakespeare · 威廉·莎士比亚
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
让我别去承认
两颗真心的结合有任何阻碍。爱不是爱，
如果它随境遇改变而改变，
或随移情者而转移：
哦，不！它是永远固定的标记，
直面风暴而从不摇动；
它是每艘迷航之船的星，
其价值无人知晓，尽管高度可测。
爱不受时间愚弄，尽管玫瑰般的唇颊
会落入他弯曲的镰刀范围：
爱不随短暂的时与周而改变，
而是一路坚持到末日的边缘。
若这是谬误，且已被证明，
那我从未写过，也无人曾爱过。
莎翁对真爱的定义：不随时移，不因物改，直至末日。两句誓言结尾，是英语中最坚定的爱情宣言。