Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 122

　　Full character'd with lasting memory,

　　Which shall above that idle rank remain

　　Beyond all date, even to eternity;

　　Or at the least, so long as brain and heart

　　Have faculty by nature to subsist;

　　Till each to razed oblivion yield his part

　　Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.

　　That poor retention could not so much hold,

　　Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;

　　Therefore to give them from me was I bold,

　　To trust those tables that receive thee more:

　　To keep an adjunct to remember thee

　　Were to import forgetfulness in me.

　　你贈我的手冊已經(jīng)一筆一劃

　　永不磨滅地刻在我的心版上，

　　它將超越無聊的名位的高下，

　　跨過一切時代，以至無窮無疆：

　　或者，至少直到大自然的規(guī)律

　　容許心和腦繼續(xù)存在的一天;

　　直到它們把你每部分都讓給

　　遺忘，你的記憶將永遠不逸散。

　　可憐的手冊就無法那樣持久，

　　我也不用籌碼把你的愛登記;

　　所以你的手冊我大膽地放走，

　　把你交給更能珍藏你的冊子：

　　要靠備忘錄才不會把你遺忘，

　　豈不等于表明我對你也善忘?