SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

or bends with the remover to remove:

O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

我决不令真正灵魂的婚姻

受到阻碍；爱不是爱，

若一见变故便变化，

或一遇波折便离开。

哦，不。爱是永恒不移的塔标，

见证风暴却永不动摇；

是每一艘漂泊之船的指引之星，

它的价值无可估量，虽然高度可以测算。

爱不受时光的播弄，尽管玫瑰色的唇和双颊

难逃岁月镰刀的毒手；

爱不因瞬息岁月而改变，

而是承受光阴流逝直到末日尽头。