william shakespeare’s sonnet lxiv. when i have seen by time’s fell hand defaced
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William Shakespeare’sSonnet
LXIV
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When I have seen by
Time’s fell hand defaced
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The rich, proud cost of outworn buried age;
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When sometimes
lofty towers I
see down-razed
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And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
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When I have see the hungry ocean gain
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Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
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And the firm soil win of
the watery main,
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Increasing store with loss
and loss with store;
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When I have seen
such interchange
of state,
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Or state itself confounded to decay;
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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
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That Time
will come and
take my love
away.
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This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
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But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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The Shakespearean project
byLucius Molus in fabula
4Th January, 2008