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<name>Dante Gabriel <index>Rossetti</index></name>

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<title>A Sonnet is a moment's monument</title>

<source>Transcription borrowed from <plug href="http://www.sonnets.org">Sonnet Central</plug>.</source>

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<line>A Sonnet is a moment's <rhyme on="a">monument</rhyme>, — </line>

<line>Memorial from the Soul's <rhyme on="b">eternity</rhyme></line>

<line>To one dead deathless hour. Look that it <rhyme on="b">be</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Whether for lustral rite or dire <rhyme on="a">portent</rhyme>,</line>

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<line>Of its own arduous fulness <rhyme on="a">reverent</rhyme>:</line>

<line>Carve it in ivory or in <rhyme on="b">ebony</rhyme>,</line>

<line>As Day or Night may rule; and let Time <rhyme on="b">see</rhyme></line>

<line>Its flowering crest impearled and <rhyme on="a">orient</rhyme>.</line>

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<line>A Sonnet is a coin: its face <rhyme on="c">reveals</rhyme></line>

<line>The soul, — its converse, to what Power 'tis <rhyme on="d">due</rhyme>: — </line>

<line>Whether for tribute to the august <rhyme on="c">appeals</rhyme></line>

<line>Of Life, or dower in Love's high <rhyme on="d">retinue</rhyme>,</line>

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<line>It serve, or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous <rhyme on="e">breath</rhyme>,</line>

<line>In Charon's palm it pay the toll to <rhyme on="e">Death</rhyme>.</line>

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