Sonnet 71

Published: April 12, 2020, 1 p.m.

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No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vildest worms to dwell;
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if (I say) you look upon this verse,
When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay;
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0And mock you with me after I am gone.

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