Your Monument Shall Be My Gentle Verse, Which Eyes Not Yet Created Shall O'er-read, And Tongues To Be Your Being Shall Rehearse When All The Breathers Of This World Are Dead

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Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen--
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry
-- Sonnet lxxxi

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