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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 summer shines; And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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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Jun 18, 2017
Jun 18, 2017 at 8:45 AM UTC
Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare
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 summer shines; And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.
that fair thou ow'st; the beauty that is yours thou wand'rest; you wander
martin
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Jun 18, 2017
Jun 18, 2017 at 8:45 AM UTC
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