 The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die; But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse...  The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes - 第 138 頁William Shakespeare 著 - 1812完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Patrick Cheney - 2007
...The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves...their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Troubled by the disparity between the emotional coldness of the figures being praised and the... | |
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