Lawrence Hall, HSG
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                                Time Will Play the Tyrant

                                  Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 5

Time need not play the tyrant; we have tyrants enough
But it is true that we must go away
When time and God say we have played our game
And must withdraw into another world

We sneak past time with our words and songs
Arcing over mortality with truth
Distilling each day into poetry
That lives long after our hearts and hands are stilled

Time need not play the tyrant, for tyrants only bluff
And their poor poisons with their masters die