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Sonnet 068: Thus Is His Cheek The Map Of Days Outworn

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,

When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,

Before these ******* signs of fair were born,

Or durst inhabit on a living brow;

Before the golden tresses of the dead,

The right of sepulchres, were shorn away

To live a second life on second head;

Ere beauty’s dead fleece made another gay.

In him those holy antique hours are seen,

Without all ornament, itself and true,

Making no summer of another’s green,

Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;

And him as for a map doth Nature store,

To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

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William Shakespeare
1564-1616 / Male / English
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