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Bryan Ferry – Sonnet Xviii lyrics
(by william shakespeare)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date,
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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Songwriters: BEETHOVEN, IAN BROWN, TOM GILBERT, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet Xviii lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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