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William Shakespeare. Sonnet 65

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Lena Levin. Sonnet 65. 20"x20". Oil on canvas. 2014
Lena Levin. Sonnet 65. 20″x20″. Oil on canvas. 2014

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

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

O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall Time’s best jewel from Time’s chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil o’er beauty can forbid?

O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.

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Reading the sixty fifth sonnet: on Art and Immortality
Painting the sixty fifth sonnet: on holding Time
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