Sonnet 77

Published: June 14, 2020, 1 p.m.

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Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste,
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show,
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look what thy memory cannot contain
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nurs'd, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Shall profit thee, and much enrich thy book.

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