SONNET 44 十四行诗 第44首
[英] 莎士比亚
假如我肉体中那平淡物质变为思想，
那害人的距离不应将我的路阻挡；
因为以后不论空间多远，我将会
从遥远的边际，被带到你在的地方。
不用管，那么我的单脚虽确曾站立
在地球上与你相距最为遥远的那地，
因为敏捷的思维可以跨越海洋大陆，
一想到那个地方，它立刻便在那里。
但是啊！那要我命的想法是我并不是思绪，
当你离去我却不能跨越那超长的间距，
而我却是由这么多的水和土做成，
带着我的呻吟我也必须顺从时间的闲余；
因这两样成分这么慢使我毫无收获
只有沉重的泪珠，标志着其中任何一个的悲楚！
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space, I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
