SONNET 64

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When I have seen by Time's fell 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 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;

When I have seen such interchange of state,

Or state itself confounded to decay,

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate:

That Time will come and take my love away.

This thought is as a death which cannot choose

But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Golden lads and girls all must / As chimney-sweepers come to ... photography!

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