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Sonnet CXXII. [Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain]

by William Shakespeare, 1609

Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character'd with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date; even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to raz'd oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
      To keep an adjunct to remember thee
      Were to import forgetfulness in me.

Published in Shakespeare's Sonnets
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