【万人聆听 万声唱颂
凡人死亡 你却永生
这是我笔的力量】
出自——
十四行诗
如果我活到可以写你的碑文
或是你生存到我在地里腐败
至彼时你音影长存
而我早已被遗忘
你名字将享永生
而我在莠腐
可是你长存在人们眼中
藉我温和的诗句
万人聆听 万声唱颂
凡人死亡 你却永生
这是我笔的力量
Or I shall live your epitaph to make
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten
From hence your memory death cannot take
Although in me each part will be forgotten
Your name from hence immortal life shall have
Though I (once gone) to all the world must die
The earth can yield me but a common grave
When you entombed in men’s eyes shall lie
Your monument shall be my gentle verse
Which eyes not yet created shall o’er-read
And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse
When all the breathes of this world are dead
You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen)
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men