Act I, Scene 64

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• Shakespeare. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
  The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
  When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed 885
  And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
  When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
  Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
  And the firm soil win of the watery main,
  Increasing store with loss and loss with store; 890
  When I have seen such interchange of state,
  Or state itself confounded to decay;
  Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
  That Time will come and take my love away.
  This thought is as a death, which cannot choose 895
  But weep to have that which it fears to lose.