William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare
thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely
and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake
the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease
hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the
eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold
complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from
fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's
changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer
shall not fade,
Nor lose possession
of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag
thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines
to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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