Shake-speares Sonnets, Never before Imprinted/Sonnet 68
For other versions of this work, see Sonnet 68 (Shakespeare).
68Thus is his cheeke the map of daies out-worne,When beauty liu'd and dy'ed as flowers do now,Before these bastard signes of faire were borne,Or durst inhabit on a liuing brow:Before the goulden tresses of the dead,The right of sepulchers, were shorne away,To liue a scond life on second head,Ere beauties dead fleece made another gay:In him those holy antique howers are seene,Without all ornament, it selfe and true,Making no summer of an others greene,Robbing no ould to dresse his beauty new,And him as for a map doth Nature store,To shew faulse Art what beauty was of yore.