你太怠慢了，你用什么来补救？
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
真和美都依赖着我的爱人；
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
你也要靠他才会有文采风流。
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
回答呵，缪斯：也许你会这样说，
Make answer, Muse, wilt thou not haply say,
“真，有它的本色，不用彩饰，
'Truth needs no color, with his colour fixed,
美，真正的美，也不用着色；
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
不经过加工，极致仍然是极致？”
But best is best, if never intermixed?’
因为他不需要赞美，你就不开口？
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
别这样代沉默辩护；你有职责
Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee
使他长久生活在金墓变灰后，
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,
使他永远受后代的赞美和讴歌。
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
担当任务吧，缪斯；我教你怎样
Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how
使他在万代后跟现在一样辉煌。
To make him seem, long hence, as he shows now.