| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet LV |
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| SONNET 55 |
| Not marble, nor the gilded monuments |
| Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; |
| But you shall shine more bright in these contents |
| Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. |
| When wasteful war shall statues overturn, |
| And broils root out the work of masonry, |
| Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn |
| The living record of your memory. |
| 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity |
| Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room |
| Even in the eyes of all posterity |
| That wear this world out to the ending doom. |
| So, till the judgment that yourself arise, |
| You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes. |
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