君乐昼兮阴蔽日,
君乐风兮牖户闭,
君乐吾兮吾心噬。”
待煦玉阅罢,登时较了真,只道是这分明是首挖苦人的诗,极尽讥诮讽刺之能事,此番乃是被贾珠赚了,更令人气恼之事便是还为一旁孝华瞧了笑话。之后贾珠赔了多少不是,道是自己不过随手一写前人之诗,并非是针对煦玉之言,煦玉方才解气。
对了当初之事煦玉到底心有戚戚,遂此番倒也踌躇了。贾珠则诅咒发誓曰此番自己断不会赚人,言毕方取来当初那支羽毛笔,以一手飘逸的花体英文题诗扇上:
“shall i compare thee to a summer's day?
thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
and summer's lease hath all too short a date;
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
and often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
but thy eternal summer shall not fade,
nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
so long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
写毕将撰扇递与煦玉,煦玉接过,扫视几眼,无奈全然看不明白,方抬首问道:“此诗亦是长短句子相间,我见还不若当初那首诗对仗工整。”
贾珠闻言笑曰:“玉哥且看,这诗一共十四句,我们便称它‘十四行诗’,它采用‘五步抑扬格’,结构亦十分精巧。我且将它译出来与你瞧瞧。”心下暗忖自己当初诵熟的莎翁情诗竟还全然记得,真乃奇事。随后另取一张冷金笺,将诗句翻译成汉语,全文如下:
“我怎么能够把你来比作夏天?
你不独比它可爱也比它温婉:
狂风把五月宠爱的嫩蕊作践,
夏天出赁的期限又未免太短: