Song of The Sun Blade

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Song Not marble, nor the gilded

monuments
of the Of princes, shall outlive this
powerful rhyme;
Sun Blade But you shall shine more bright
in these contènts
Than unswept stone, besmeared
with sluttish time.

When wasteful war shall statues


overturn,
And broils root out the work of
masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's
quick fire shall burn
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, The living record of your
the sheath should be thrown away.
memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious
enmity
Shall you pace forth; your For the sword outwears
praise shall still find room its sheath,
Even in the eyes of all posterity And the soul wears out the
That wear this world out to the breast,
ending doom.
And the heart must pause
So, till the judgment that for breath,
yourself arise, And love itself have rest.
You live in this, and dwell in .
lovers' eyes.

Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare


Quote by Lord Byron

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