{"id":4486,"date":"2015-03-19T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4486"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T21:44:21","slug":"sonnet-65","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4486","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Sonnet is used in our Aside with Louis Colaianni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,<\/li>\n
  2. But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,<\/li>\n
  3. How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,<\/li>\n
  4. Whose action is no stronger than a flower?<\/li>\n
  5. O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out<\/li>\n
  6. Against the wreckful siege of battering days,<\/li>\n
  7. When rocks impregnable are not so stout,<\/li>\n
  8. Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?<\/li>\n
  9. O fearful meditation! where, alack,<\/li>\n
  10. Shall Time’s best jewel from Time’s chest lie hid?<\/li>\n
  11. Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?<\/li>\n
  12. Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?<\/li>\n
  13. O, none, unless this miracle have might,<\/li>\n
  14. That in black ink my love may still shine bright.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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