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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear”
Sonnet LXXVII
THY glass will show thee how thy beauties wear |
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Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; |
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These vacant leaves thy mind’s imprint will bear, |
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And of this book this learning mayst thou taste. |
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The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show |
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Of mouthed graves will give thee memory; |
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Thou by thy dial’s shady stealth mayst know |
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Time’s thievish progress to eternity. |
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Look! what thy memory cannot contain, |
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Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find |
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Those children nursed, deliver’d from thy brain, |
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To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. |
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These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, |
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Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book. |
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