Clasics in Ñspel: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 125

Sonit 125: Wr’t ōt t m I bòr ɖ caṇpi

WIŁM ŚECSPIR

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Wr’t ōt t m I bòr ɖ caṇpi,
Wɖ mî xtrn ɖ ǎtwd oṇrñ,
Or leid gret besīz fr itrṇti,
Ẃć pruvz mor śort

ɖn west or ruinñ?

Hv I nt sìn dwelrz on form n fevr
Lūz ol n mor bî peyñ tù mć rent
Fr compǎnd swīt,

forgowñ simpl sêvr,

Pitifl ʈrîvrz, in ɖer gezñ spent?
No; let m b obsīqịs in ɖî hart,
N tec ɖǎ mî obleśn, pur bt fri,
Ẃć z nt mixt wɖ secndz,

nz no art,

Bt ḿćl rendr, onli m fr ɖi.
Hns, ɖǎ sbornd informr!

a tru soul

Ẃn most impićt

standz līst in ɖî cntrol.

"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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