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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”
Sonnet LXXIII
THAT time of year thou mayst in me behold |
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When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang |
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Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, |
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Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. |
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In me thou see’st the twilight of such day |
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As after sunset fadeth in the west; |
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Which by and by black night doth take away, |
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Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. |
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In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire, |
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That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, |
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As the death-bed whereon it must expire |
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Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by. |
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This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, |
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To love that well which thou must leave ere long. |