Old Billy Wrote

Old Billy wrote
Of brows besieged
By forty winters wear
Of making love
And sowing seeds
And so thy beauty share
With generations
Down through time
Thy beauty always there

Old Billy wrote
Through Hamlet’s speech
Of arrows and of slings
Of the noble choices
And unseen fears
Outrageous Fortune brings
And that
Undiscovered country
Whose siren ever sings