William Shakespeare



              Sonnet 22
                   My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
                   So long as youth and thou are of one date;
                   But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
                   Then look I death my days should expiate.

                   For all that beauty that doth cover thee
                   Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
                   Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
                   How can I then be elder than thou art?

                   O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
                   As I, not for myself, but for thee will;
                   Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
                   As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.

                   Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;
                   Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.

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