Holy Sonnet X
You only get to die once. Practice scorning death now so that you regard it with the proper contempt when the time comes.
March 18, 2020
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You only get to die once. Practice scorning death now so that you regard it with the proper contempt when the time comes.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, our love shall live, and later life renew.
The sonnet form gives the poet precisely 140 syllables in which to make a point. One might think this would be limiting. Quite the opposite.
“God doth not need either man’s work or his own gifts; who best bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.”