Sonnet Lvi:

LVI The lagging days crawl slowly to their end, The weeks sum up in months, and glide away, The jolly bells proclaim it New Year's Day, As if they felt the wicked times would mend. But I, alas! I see the old things wend Under new names, with scarce a change, to say How the fresh mortal differs from the clay Over whose sins the pitying grasses bend. So we, who boast our love of matchless height, Might find like boasts were in their dusty bones; And when beneath such dumb, sepulchral stones Ourselves are laid forever out of sight, Some pair may rob us of our sovereign right, Some poet shame thy poet's tenerest tones.