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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Or I shall live your epitaph to make”
Sonnet LXXXI
OR I shall live your epitaph to make |
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Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; |
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From hence your memory death cannot take, |
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Although in me each part will be forgotten. |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have, |
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Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: |
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The earth can yield me but a common grave, |
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When you entombed in men’s eyes shall lie. |
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Your monument shall be my gentle verse, |
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Which eyes not yet created shall o’er-read; |
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And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, |
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When all the breathers of this world are dead; |
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You still shall live,—such virtue hath my pen,— |
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Where breath most breathes,—even in the mouths of men. |
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