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Immortality by proxy, part 2

March 1st, 2003 · No Comments

Sonnet XVIII, William Shakespeare

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:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Awwww–thanks, William! So, your genius and your love made this person immortal. Only thing is, though, nobody can now figure out who this person was. Once again: if you want to be immortal, girls–or if you just want to be solvent–do it yourself!


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