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THE SONNETS
by William Shakespeare
1
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's
rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His
tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own
bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet
self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And
only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy
content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the
world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and

thee.
2
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches
in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,

Will be a tattered weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where
all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say
within thine own deep