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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest”
Sonnet III
LOOK in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest |
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Now is the time that face should form another; |
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Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, |
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Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother, |
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For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb |
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Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? |
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Or who is he so fond will be the tomb |
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Of his self-love, to stop posterity? |
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Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee |
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Calls back the lovely April of her prime; |
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So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, |
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Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. |
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But if thou live, remember’d not to be, |
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Die single, and thine image dies with thee. |
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