Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 68 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 68 |
1 Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, 2 When beauty lived and died as flowers do now, 3 Before these bastard signs of fair were born, 4 Or durst inhabit on a living brow; 5 Before the golden tresses of the dead, 6 The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, 7 To live a second life on second head; 8 Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay: 9 In him those holy antique hours are seen, 10 Without all ornament, itself and true, 11 Making no summer of another's green, 12 Robbing no old to dress his beauty new; 13 And him as for a map doth Nature store, 14 To show false Art what beauty was of yore. |
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