the Shakespeare meme, still in business
Apr. 16th, 2007 10:21 amfor National Poetry Month: when you see a Shakespeare quote in your lj, post one in your own.
funny how topical the Bard can be, isn't it?
Then know, it is your fault that you resign
The supreme seat, the throne majestical,
The scepter'd office of your ancestors,
Your state of fortune and your due of birth,
The lineal glory of your royal house,
To the corruption of a blemished stock:
Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,
Which here we waken to our country's good,
This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;
Her face defaced with scars of infamy,
Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,
And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.
funny how topical the Bard can be, isn't it?