Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Summer

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Anthony Esolen
Aug 22, 2022
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“Shall I compare thee to a SUMMER’S day?” asks the speaker in one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets.  Well, he goes on to say, it won’t be fair to the beloved, because “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And SUMMER’S lease hath all too short a date.”  No, the sun must decline from midsummer day, and time does its inevitable work up…

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