在我眼中挚友从不衰老，
记得初见时，君多俊美，
日日无损耗。三冬寒潮
入疏林，摇落夏日芳菲，
三度春色，化作秋叶落，
人随四时更替，看惯了
四月红三度烧成六月火，
唯有君依旧，嫩如绿苗。
美呀旋转不已，如钟表
时针潜行，分秒悄悄溜，
令我觉得君如当初姣好，
实则静中动，骗我眼眸：
慑于此，后来人请听取：
前代绝美，哀哉已死去。
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第9、10行有多层次的隐喻，dial-hand 直译是“日晷或钟面之手”，指时针，his （its） figure 指钟面数字。伊莉萨白代的钟大都只有时针，没有分针和秒针，所以看起来好像没有什么在移动。
Shakespeare Sonnet
104
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey’d,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty’s summer dead
作者：傅正明，瑞典华人学者、翻译家。
来源：文学城博客（2021-11-10）