William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet III
Look in thy
glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that
face should form another;
Whose fresh repair
if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile
the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so
fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage
of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond
will be the tomb,
Of his self-love to
stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's
glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely
April of her prime;
So thou through windows
of thine age shalt see,
Despite of wrinkles
this thy golden time.
But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
Die single and thine image dies with thee.
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