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Sha111 Compare Thee To A
Summers Day Thou Art More
Love1y And More Temperate
Rough Winds Do Shake The
Dar1ing Budsof May And
Summerslease Hath A11 Too
Short A Date Sometime Too Hot a
The Eyeof Heaven Shines And
often1s His Go1d Comp1exion
Dimmd And Every Fair From Fairc
Sometime Dec1ines By Chance
or Natures Changing Course
Untrimmd But Thy Eterna
Summer Sha11 Not Fade Norlose
Possessionof That Fair Thou
owst Nor Sha11 Death Brag Thoud
Wanderst1n His Shade When1n
Eterna1 Lines To Time Thou
Growst Solong As Men Can
Breatheor Eyes Can See Solong
Lives This And This Giveslife
To Thee
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Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Written to the chain on 29 Nov 2011, block 155,256.

Block
155,256
Written
29 Nov 2011
Size
588 B
Format
TEXT
Transactions
1

About this artifact

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

How it was stored

Base58 inscriptions put text into the visible address string itself. The address must still satisfy Base58Check rules, including a checksum, so the text often uses substitutions and padding to make a valid-looking address.

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