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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)

October 3, 2013 By PoetryGirl

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime . . .

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