SONNET 18<span>Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? </span> Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, <span>And summer's lease hath all too short a date: </span> Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, <span>And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; </span> 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, <span>When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; </span> So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, <span>So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
It put people back to work. It saved capitalism. It restored faith in the American economic system, while at the same time it revived a sense of hope in the American people.