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{\normalfont\large William Shakespeare,}
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{\normalfont\LARGE Sonnet 1}
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,\\
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,\\
But as the riper should by time decease,\\
His tender heir might bear his memory.
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But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,\\
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,\\
Making a famine where abundance lies,\\
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
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Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament.\\
And only herald to the gaudy spring,\\
Whithin thine own bud buriest thy content\\
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
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Pity the world, or else this glutton be,\\
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.\\

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{\itshape \small Verkinto de tiu ĉi Angla
poemo estas {\scshape William Shakespeare}
($\ast$1564-04-13~--~$\dagger$1616-05-03).

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Arg-491-953 (2009-03-27 11:02:05)
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