Aarav Jaiswal

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+# Sonnet 18
+
+**William Shakespeare, 1609. Public domain.**
+
+```
+ 1  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
+ 2  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
+ 3  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
+ 4  And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
+ 5  Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
+ 6  And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
+ 7  And every fair from fair sometime declines,
+ 8  By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
+ 9  But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
+10  Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
+11  Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
+12  When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
+13     So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
+14     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
+```
+
+---
+
+## Why this poem
+
+It is 14 lines, it is out of copyright, and most people already half know the
+first line. That matters more than it sounds. Across all three phases you are
+going to keep coming back to this same text, which means the poem is never the
+new thing you are learning. The git is.
+
+Read line 12 again once you have finished Phase 3. Shakespeare is claiming that
+writing something down is what keeps it alive. That is also, more or less, what
+a commit is.
+Written by Aara Jaiswal