William Shakespeare on Birthday
1564–1616 England
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Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Boys who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
There is an old poor man
Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger.
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine.
'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
At your age,
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
And waits upon the judgment.
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
You are old;
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a sceptre to control the world.
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