When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced...
Sonnet 64When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. |
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I see expensive old things worn out with time, tall towers toppled and monuments shattered, the sea eating away at the shore and the sands in turn filling up the bay. When I see all this change and destruction, it makes me think that in time I’ll lose my love, too.
A deathly thought - and I can’t help crying at holding something now, that I can’t bear to part with.