{"id":1682,"date":"2008-04-17T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/04\/17\/when-i-have-seen-by-times-fell-hand-defaced\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T16:54:21","slug":"when-i-have-seen-by-times-fell-hand-defaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/when-i-have-seen-by-times-fell-hand-defaced\/","title":{"rendered":"When I have seen by Time&#8217;s fell hand defaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/41\">Poetry Month<\/a>, just like it was last year.  We&#8217;re celebrating with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.william-shakespeare.info\/william-shakespeare-sonnet-64.htm\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnet 64<\/a>, about the Second Law of Thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I have seen by Time&#8217;s fell hand defaced<br \/>\nThe rich proud cost of outworn buried age;<br \/>\nWhen sometime lofty towers I see down-razed<br \/>\nAnd brass eternal slave to mortal rage;<br \/>\nWhen I have seen the hungry ocean gain<br \/>\nAdvantage on the kingdom of the shore,<br \/>\nAnd the firm soil win of the watery main,<br \/>\nIncreasing store with loss and loss with store;<br \/>\nWhen I have seen such interchange of state,<br \/>\nOr state itself confounded to decay;<br \/>\nRuin hath taught me thus to ruminate,<br \/>\nThat Time will come and take my love away.<br \/>\nThis thought is as a death, which cannot choose<br \/>\nBut weep to have that which it fears to lose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is Poetry Month, just like it was last year. We&#8217;re celebrating with Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnet 64, about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. When I have seen by Time&#8217;s fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}