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01-19-2009, 03:10 AM
Sonnet #123
CXXIII.br /br /No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:br /Thy pyramids built up with newer mightbr /To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;br /They are but dressings of a former sight.br /Our dates are brief, and therefore we admirebr /What thou dost foist upon us that is old,br /And rather make them born to our desirebr /Than think that we before have heard them told.br /Thy registers and thee I both defy,br /Not wondering at the present nor the past,br /For thy records and what we see doth lie,br /Made more or less by thy continual haste.br /This I do vow and this shall ever be;br /I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.
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CXXIII.br /br /No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:br /Thy pyramids built up with newer mightbr /To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;br /They are but dressings of a former sight.br /Our dates are brief, and therefore we admirebr /What thou dost foist upon us that is old,br /And rather make them born to our desirebr /Than think that we before have heard them told.br /Thy registers and thee I both defy,br /Not wondering at the present nor the past,br /For thy records and what we see doth lie,br /Made more or less by thy continual haste.br /This I do vow and this shall ever be;br /I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.
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