Beauty in the Beast



Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

-William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Since Brass, nor Stone, Nor Earth,
nor Boundless Sea
,
Sonnet LXV







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