Verse thus design'd has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty, if it prove But as long-Liv as present love.

Verse thus design'd has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty, if it prove But as long-Liv as present love.

这样设计的诗歌如果没有厄运，如果它只是在美的消逝之日到来，如果它被证明不过和现在的爱情一样长久的话。

-- Edmund Waller 沃勒