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

...hand defac'd The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd And brass eternal slave to mortal rage, When I have...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,...

...nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, Kut sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this'rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger...battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stcu; Nor gate, of steel so strong, but time decays ? O fearful meditation! where, alack! Shall Time's...

...dramas might never be appreciated as the first and richest fruits of his mighty genius. SONNET 65. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering clays, AVhen rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so...

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

...seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store...wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable arc not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation ! where, alack...

...with store, — When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, K.uin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Xor gates of steel so strong,...

...mean "condition." 13 This thought is as a dtath.— Causing anticipatively the p1utg of separation. LXV. SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless...a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? 0, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks...

...hand defac'd The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-ras'd And brass eternal slave to mortal rage, When I have...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,...