...hand defaced the rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; when sometime lofty towers I see downrazed, and brass eternal slave to mortal rage; when I have...choose but weep to have that which it fears to lose. W. SHAKESPEARE WHEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,...

...down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage of the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of...choose, But weep to have that which it fears to lose. SONNET LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their...

...hand defaced The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. W. Shakespeare. CCXIL AULD ROBIN GRAY. the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at name, And a' the...

...hand defaced The rich, proud cost of outworn buried age: When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have...ruminate, That time will come, and take my Love away : (60.) This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose....

...65, 73, 74 LXIV. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defao'd The rich-proud cost of outworn hnried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Vide Sonnet 6. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways...

...hand defaced The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age ; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage ; When I have...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How...

...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...thus to ruminate — That Time will come and take mv love awaV. 494 THE SONNETS. 495 This thought IB as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have...

...The rich proud cost of out-worn buried age; Sonett 65. When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage: When I have...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How...

...the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with storr ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea; But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How...

...their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate — That Time...choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. rnHE had been, for several hours, in a -•- humour reverse from agreeable : so...