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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 63
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 63Sonnet 63
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Synopsis:
By preserving the youthful beauty of the beloved in poetry, the poet makes preparation for the day that the beloved will himself be old.
Against my love shall be, as I am now,
With Time’s injurious hand crushed and o’erworn;
When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow
4With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath traveled on to age’s steepy night,
And all those beauties whereof now he’s king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
8Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age’s cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
12My sweet love’s beauty, though my lover’s life.
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.