Then let
not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee
thy summer ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet
some vial; treasure thou some place,
With
beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed:
That use
is not forbidden usury,
Which
happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for
thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten
times happier be it ten for one,
Ten times
thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of
thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what
could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving
thee living in posterity?
Be not
self-willed for thou art much too fair,
To be death's conquest and
make worms thine heir.English Literature
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