Sonnet 13 Georg Santner, Rebekka Biener, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Austria Sonnet XIII O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live: Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give. So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself’s decease, When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear. Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honou