| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet LXV |
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| SONNET 65 |
| Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, |
| But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, |
| How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, |
| Whose action is no stronger than a flower? |
| O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out |
| Against the wreckful siege of battering days, |
| When rocks impregnable are not so stout, |
| Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? |
| O fearful meditation! where, alack, |
| Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? |
| Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? |
| Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? |
| O, none, unless this miracle have might, |
| That in black ink my love may still shine bright. |
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