The Shadow
Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she will court you.
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
At the morn and even, shades are longest;
At noon they are or short or none;
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they’re not known.
Say, are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadow of us men?
-Ben Johnson
影子
追隨一個影子，而他飛離你；
試著放手讓它去，它又將緊追你，
正如追求一個情人，你追她逃，
你放手，她追來。
那麼你說，女人不正好似
我們男人的影子？
清晨與黃昏之際，影子最長；
中午時分，他們或短或全無：
如此說來男人最脆弱之際，他們最強悍。
而男人強健之時，他們將不為人知，
那麼你說，女人不正好似
我們男人的影子？
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