Back from Ann Arbor.
Here’s sonnet six:
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VI
Then let not
winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy
summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet
some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's
treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
That use is
not forbidden usury,
Which happies
those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy
self to breed another thee,
Or ten times
happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy
self were happier than thou art,
If ten of
thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what
could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee
living in posterity?
Be not
self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be
death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
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Hiding the indicative (and the math!) between a pair
of imperatives and an interrogative J
The volta is … the for
in the penultimate line?
And: The last
line really carries some serious weight!
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