William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CVII
Not mine own
fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world
dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease
of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit
to a confin'd doom.
The mortal moon hath
her eclipse endur'd,
And the sad augurs
mock their own presage;
Incertainties now
crown themselves assur'd,
And peace proclaims
olives of endless age.
Now with the drops
of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh,
and Death to me subscribes,
Since, spite of him,
I'll live in this poor rime,
While he insults o'er
dull and speechless tribes:
And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
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