SONNET 18

이 세익스피어의 소네트를 30년이 훨씬 넘도록
아직도 외우고 있다는게
스스로 놀랍다.
그 땐 왜 그랬지..?

단순히 영문학 전공이라 외운 것 같진 않다.
아름답고 낭만적이라고 느낀 것 이상으로
꽂혔었나보다.

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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18

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