Sonnet 71

  1. No longer mourn for me when I am dead
  2. Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
  3. Give warning to the world that I am fled
  4. From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
  5. Nay, if you read this line, remember not
  6. The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
  7. That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
  8. If thinking on me then should make you woe.
  9. O if, I say, you look upon this verse,
  10. When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
  11. Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
  12. But let your love even with my life decay;
  13. Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
  14. And mock you with me after I am gone.

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