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2003-07-25 - 6:39 a.m.

Now This Is A Quiz!

"summer hath all too short a lease" [sic]

1) This is incorrect. What is the correct line?
2) What is the correct line from?
3) Is it period?
4) Why did I think of this line?

Poetry Laurels are not invited to participate, Gyrth.
If you use Google, or any web resource, that's fine, but you're disqualified.
The winner gets my admiration.
from muirgheal :
1) Summer's lease hath all too short a date
2) Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day
3) Yes
4) Well it makes me think that if Pennsic is here already summer is almost gone! I love a little Shakespeare in the morning. Thank you:) No google but I did look up to see if it was has or hath.

Muirgheal wins my eternal admiration!

This is one of my favorite poems on many levels.

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII)

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.

-- William Shakespeare