ChasingShadows:for chocoreaper

GiftArt for the lovely . Inspired by her piece: [link]

The text is Sonnet 81 by William Shakespeare. (And for the record, he does not have copyrights because it was before those existed so it's ion the public domain.) The text reads:

Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen--
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.

The title is from the Matchbook Romance song 'My Mannequin Can Dance," which belongs to them and not me.


I hope ya like it! Please feel free to comment and critique.