Sir Patrick Stewart celebrates his 80th birthday with Shakespeare's Sonnet 80. 🎂 🎁
2020.07.13

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"Sonnet 80 arrives on the eve of my 80th birthday. #ASonnetADay" @SirPatStew

Sonnet 80 by William Shakespeare

O! how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.

Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or, being wracked, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building, and of goodly pride:

Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this, my love was my decay.
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80. szonett (fordítottaGyőry Vilmos és Szász Károly)

Ha rólad írok, oh mint csüggedek!
Tudván, jelesb ajk zengi már neved’,
S mindenre kész, hogy méltán zengje meg
S dalomban elnémítson engemet;

De érdemed (mely téres oczeán)
Hajót hord, bármi büszke vagy szerény is:
Sajkámon, mely övéhez csak parány,
Tág színeden feltűnök készen én is.

Lebegve föntart, csak kissé segélj
Mig ő száguld nagy mélységed fölött,
S ha sülyedek, az én becsem csekély,
Mig nagy szabás s érték diszíti őt.

Azért, mig ő megy, s én a mélybe vesztem,
Kinek mit árt? Szerelmem volt a vesztem.

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