Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,

When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,

Before the bastard signs of fair were born,

Or durst inhabit on a living brow;

Before the golden tresses of the dead,

The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,

To live a second life on second head;

Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:

In him those holy antique hours are seen,

Without all ornament, itself and true,

Making no summer of another's green,

Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;

And him as for a map doth Nature store,

To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

這樣，他的朱顏是古代的圖志，

那時美開了又謝像今天花一樣，

那時冒牌的艷色還未曾出世，

或未敢公然高據(jù)活人的額上，

那時死者的美發(fā)，墳墓的財產，

還未被偷剪下來，去活第二回

在第二個頭上②；那時美的死金鬟

還未被用來使別人顯得華貴：

這圣潔的古代在他身上呈現(xiàn)，

赤裸裸的真容，毫無一點鉛華，

不用別人的青翠做他的夏天，

不掠取舊脂粉妝飾他的鮮花；

　　就這樣造化把他當圖志珍藏，

　　讓假藝術賞識古代美的真相。