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southendmd:
Bumping this early for Throwback Thursday.

I keep thinking about Jack and Ennis fifty years ago.  They just met last week on June 5 (perhaps).  They're talking about the Thresher, and having a grand time. 

To think they were only together for a few short weeks of summer.  Makes me think of this:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
 
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
 
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
 
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

--Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

southendmd:
A bit OT, but I've always like this sonnet.  Apparently, the subject of the poem (and many of the early sonnets) is thought to be a young man. 

I love the image that the beloved's beauty is everlasting, contrasted to the brief beauty of a summer's day.  Also, the idea that loves lives beyond death. Very appropriate.

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