Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty's
legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend, And being frank
she lends to those are free. Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou
abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why
dost thou use
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In the third quatrain, the speaker declares the advantages that the poem has over the summer day: that unlike the summer day, the poem shall remain eternally; its summer will not end as the natural summer day must. Nor will the poem lose its beauty, and even death cannot claim the poem, because it will exist “in eternal lines” that the poet will continue to write, “When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.” The Couplet – “This gives life to thee” The couplet—“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”— claims that as long as someone is alive to read it, the poem will have life.
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