...This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LXY. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks...

...band. — 10. When will that mournful day pass away (cado) from my mind? EXERCISE X. (Shakespeare). Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...flower ? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out 5 Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates...

...can bear, Some, none resist, though not exceeding fair. Ytung. 278. BEAUTY : its decay inevitable. ord, however bright That crown of joy above, What...This joy e'en now on earth is ours, But only, Lord, a Where rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? О fearful...

...live, and he in them still green. LXIV. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty...no stronger than a flower ? O ! how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable arc not...

...seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of I he wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? 0 fearful meditation ! where, alack ! Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid ? Or what...

...next Sonnet but one, last line, we have to die for by dying. See vol. vi. page 181, note 7. 65Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But...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...

...cloud hath mask'd him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; TIME AND LOVE. (Sonnet Lxv.) Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 5 O, how shall summer's honey-breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When...

...with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Euin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come...Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rooks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? O fearful meditation...

...to have that which it fears to lose. LXV. I Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, 1 But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 'How with...Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rosks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays ? 0 fearful meditation...

...This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have9 that which it fears to lose. 65. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...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...