Mortality



O how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays?

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







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