Thinking ahead to a summer’s day, and thee….

Took this during the spring, actually, but you get the idea....

One of my favorite poems is Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, which goes like this:

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.

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I also like the way Randall (he’s the guy that draws xkcd.com, which we feature from time to time), reviewed the important parts, taking the time to compare & contrast:

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