Shake-speares Sonnets, Never before Imprinted/Sonnet 55
For other versions of this work, see Sonnet 55 (Shakespeare).
55Not marble, nor the guilded monument,Of Princes shall out-liue this powrefull rime,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThen vnswept stone, besmeer'd with sluttish time.When wastefull warre shall Statues ouer-turne,And broiles roote out the worke of masonry,Nor Mars his sword, nor warres quick fire shall burne:The liuing record of your memory.
Gainst death, and all obliuious emnityShall you pace forth, your praise shall stil finde roome,Euen in the eyes of all posterityThat weare this world out to the ending doome.So til the iudgement that your selfe arise,You liue in this, and dwell in louers eies.