Lawrence Hall HSG
[email protected] From Shakespeare: You are Golden
Cf. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 75, Robert Frost, and S. E. Hinton
To say that you are my dear golden girl
Would be a tired cliché and would be wrong
You are yourself, neither golden nor mine
I cannot grasp you, but I honor you
To say that you are my dear golden girl
Would be an exercise in futility
A metrical line in ten syllables
Wholly inadequate for any purpose
To say that you were my dear golden girl -
Perhaps it was so in some other world
Meme-ing from Shakespeare's Sonnet 75, Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and S. E. Hinton's THE OUTSIDERS