The Annals of America
The Annals of America
1.21 Two Songs of the Colonists
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1.21 Two Songs of the Colonists

Composed around 1630
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Two Songs of the Colonists 1630, Illuminated Melodies, Foundational Tunes, Essential, Interconnected.

'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 dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.’

~ William Shakespeare; Sonnet XVIII (1609)

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The Annals of America
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Synopsis of "The Annals of America"; first Published in 1968 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, & edited by Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler.