Sonnet124 by William Shakespeare 莎翁十四行诗 第124篇 | 英语名家诗篇

SONNET 124If my dear love were but the child of state,It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'dAs subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather'd.No; it was builded far from accident;It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor fallsUnder the blow of thralled discontent,Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:It fears not policy, that heretick,Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,But all alone stands hugely politick,That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.   To this I witness call the fools of time,   Which die for goodness, who have liv'd for crime.