When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced

　　The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;

　　When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed

　　And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;

　　When I have seen the hungry ocean gain

　　Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,

　　And the firm soil win of the watery main,

　　Increasing store with loss and loss with store;

　　When I have seen such interchange of state,

　　Or state itself confounded to decay;

　　Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,

　　That Time will come and take my love away.

　　This thought is as a death, which cannot choose

　　But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

　　当我眼见前代的富丽和豪华

　　被时光的手毫不留情地磨灭;

　　当巍峨的塔我眼见沦为碎瓦，

　　连不朽的铜也不免一场浩劫;

　　当我眼见那欲壑难填的大海

　　一步一步把岸上的疆土侵蚀，

　　汪洋的水又渐渐被陆地覆盖，

　　失既变成了得，得又变成了失;

　　当我看见这一切扰攘和废兴，

　　或者连废兴一旦也化为乌有;

　　毁灭便教我再三这样地反省：

　　时光终要跑来把我的爱带走。

　　哦，多么致命的思想!它只能够

　　哭着去把那刻刻怕失去的占有。