Today is reportedly the birthday of the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare. Whether you love him for his tear-jerking tragedies, romantic sonnets or surprisingly dirty insults, we can think of no one else who has had more of an impact on the arts than this fine gentleman. To praise the great bard, one of his best known sonnets:
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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.
