Sonnet 18 -- William Shakespeare

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 oft' 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 wanderest 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.

-- Posted by Nick

The poem by Shakespeare should be read in conjunction and comparison with the following:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

No lah Singapore where got summer one?

Use your brain and think before you write leh

Your girl is hot but where got like the sun?

Your England very powderful is it?

Later you kena teacher for your wife.

Your poem better go and do edit

Or girl see already run for her life.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Wah lau eh you still want to write like that!

Eternal mean what? She sure need first aid

After she read lor. Come lah, don’t be sad,

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

Definitely can use dictionary. -- Nicholas Zeng, 1985 -- present