nor my beloved as an idol show,
since all alike my songs and praises be
to one, of one, still such, and ever so.
kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
still constant in a wondrous excellence;
therefore my verse to constancy confined,
one thing expressing, leaves out difference.
`fair, kind and true` is all my argument,
`fair, kind, and true` varying to other words;
and in this change is my invention spent,
three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
`fair, kind, and true,` have often lived alone,
which three till now never kept seat in one.
不要把我的爱叫作偶像崇拜，
也不要把我的爱人当偶像看，
既然所有我的歌和我的赞美
都献给一个、为一个，永无变换。
我的爱今天仁慈，明天也仁慈，
有着惊人的美德，永远不变心，
所以我的诗也一样坚贞不渝，
全省掉差异，只叙述一件事情。
"美、善和真"，就是我全部的题材，
"美、善和真"，用不同的词句表现;
我的创造就在这变化上演才，
三题一体，它的境界可真无限。
过去"美、善和真"常常分道扬镳，
到今天才在一个人身上协调。