Study 18

Study 18

Shall I compare thee to a study week?
Thou art more lazy and more tempting:
Rough winds do flip the darling books for me,
And study week had all too short a date:
Sometime too sleepy the eye of mine shines,
And often is my tired complexion dimm'd;
And every hair from hair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course unknown;
But why eternal study shall not fade?
Nor lose possession of that hair i own?
Nor shall Death brag me wander'st in his shade?
When in eternal study no time shall be wasted:
So long as i can breathe or eyes can read,
So long study this and this gives life to me.

- William Fei Speare