Sonnet Cviii

William Shakespeare

     What's in the brain that ink may character
     Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?
     What's new to speak, what new to register,
     That may express my love or thy dear merit?
     Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
     I must, each day say o'er the very same,
     Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
     Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
     So that eternal love in love's fresh case
     Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
     Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
     But makes antiquity for aye his page,
     Finding the first conceit of love there bred
     Where time and outward form would show it dead.

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