music and voice by Lucas Thanos br Sonnet # 18 by William Shakespearebr br Sonnet # 18br br Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?br Thou art more lovely and more temperate:br Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,br And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:br Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,br And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;br And every fair from fair sometime declines,br By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:br But thy eternal Summer shall not fadebr Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;br Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,br When in eternal lines to time thou growest:br br So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,br So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.