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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
  • 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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