Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty liv'd and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow; ⁠4
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay: ⁠8
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,
Making no summer of another's green,
Robbing no old to dress his beauty new; ⁠12
⁠And him as for a map doth Nature store,
⁠To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

1 map: picture
3 bastard signs of fair; Cf. n.
6 The right of sepulchres: property belonging to the tomb
9 antique hours: hours of antiquity
10 itself and true: natural and sincere