Shakespeare makes us believe his lives
Have played all the parts in his plays
Someone who has brought to ripeness
All his ghostly former lives
And put them shaking on the stage
A terrible sweetness in their mouths
Refusing to side with history or
Tragedy or comedy completely
I love that he retired in the end
To resume the usual family life
Someone's husband quarreling in bed
Or bringing flowers to his son's grave
While out here in the throes of the world
His many lives sustain us still
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