...this powerful rhyme; butyou shall shine more bright in these contents than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Form: Sonnet — Vocabulary: churl: rude person: bett'ring: best: vouchsafe: grant — Notes: In this...

...this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all...

...But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. 4 When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 8 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even...

...sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory, 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth ; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity oThat wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in...

...heat. The Jacobean pulpit was burning, too, perhaps with a wisp of words rising amid the smoke: . . . When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry . . . Now Dissenters and Church of England alike disappeared into nothingness and England became Catholic...