Friday, December 27, 2013

Is this the weekend?

Weekends lose some meaning when classes aren’t in session  J  Friday morning sonnet:
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CVIII

  What's in the brain, that ink may character,
  Which hath not figur'd to thee my true spirit?
  What's new to speak, what now to register,
  That may express my love, or thy dear merit?
  Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
  I must each day say o'er the very same;
  Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
  Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
  So that eternal love in love's fresh case,
  Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
  Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
  But makes antiquity for aye his page;
    Finding the first conceit of love there bred,
    Where time and outward form would show it dead.
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The volta is the but at the beginning of the antepenultimate line.  I might be starting to see the turns a little better now  J  Another sonnet in the afternoon. 

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