摘要
下面的文字出自莎士比亚喜剧As YouLikeIt（有人译为《皆大欢喜》，文坛大师粱实秋译成《如愿》）中第二幕第七场，严格说来并不算是诗歌，是一幕自白，是跟随公爵被流放到森林的大臣所说的一段话，但是依旧沿袭了莎翁语言的优美性与哲理性，如诗般地给人以启迪。
All the world＇s a stage, And all the men and women merely players： They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse＇s arms. d then the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then, the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
