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0Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
But when from high-most pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon,
Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son.
屠岸译：
看呵，普照万物的太阳在东方
抬起了火红的头颅，人间的眼睛
就都来膜拜他这初生的景象，
注视着他，向他的圣驾致敬；
正像强壮的小伙子，青春年少，
他又爬上了峻峭的天体的高峰，
世人的目光依然爱慕他美貌，
侍奉着他在他那金色的旅途中；
但是不久他乘着疲倦的车子
从白天的峰顶跌下，像已经衰老，
原先忠诚的人眼就不再去注视
他怎样衰亡而改换了观看的目标：
你如今好比是丽日当空放光彩，
将来要跟他一样——除非有后代。
