Шекспир. Сонет 13. О, жил бы вечно ты! – увы, любовь...

  Коль скажет сын: "Я потерял отца".


XIII

O that you were your self! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live;
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give:
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination; then you were
Your self again after yourself’s decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold
Against the stormy gusts of winter’s day
And barren rage of death’s eternal cold?
  O, none but unthrifts: dear my love, you know
  You had a father, let your son say so.