——B. Jonson
Still to be neat, still to be dressed
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powdered, still perfumed:
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
瓊生
總是衣冠楚楚,總是打扮齊整,
好像你要出門,赴人的宴請,
總是涂脂抹粉,總是香水灑身,
女士啊,我的話也許值得一聽:
藝術背后的原因尚不為人知,
但它不是一概迷人,一概秀麗。
看著我,示我一張平常的面孔,
美其實就在這樸實無華之中;
衣衫輕輕飄動,頭發(fā)自由披散,
如此的不經意反讓我更加喜歡,
遠勝過來自藝術的刻意裝點,
因為藝術不能養(yǎng)心,只能養(yǎng)眼。