Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

　　你还没提炼出香精，那你就别让

　　In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled.

　　严冬的粗手来抹掉你脸上的盛夏：

　　Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place

　　你教玉瓶生香吧;用美的宝藏

　　With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.

　　使福地生光吧，趁它还没有自杀。

　　That use is not forbidden usury

　　取这种重利并不是犯禁放高利贷，

　　Which happies those that pay the willing loan;

　　它能够教愿意还债的人们高兴;

　　That's for thyself to breed another thee,

　　这正是要你生出另一个你来，

　　Or ten times happier be it ten for one.

　　或高兴十倍，要是你一人生十人;

　　Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,

　　你十个儿女描画你十幅肖像，

　　If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:

　　你就要比你独个儿添十倍欢乐：

　　Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,

　　你将来去世时，死神能把你怎样，

　　Leaving thee living in posterity?

　　既然在后代身上你永远存活?

　　Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair,

　　别刚愎自用，你太美丽了，不应该

　　To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

　　让死神掳去、教蛆虫做你的后代。

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