Clasics in Ñspel: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129

Sonit 129: Ɖ xpns v spirit in a west v śem

WIŁM ŚECSPIR

Ɖ xpns v spirit in a west v śem
Z lust in ax́n: n tl ax́n, lust
Z prjrd, mrdṛs, bludi, fl v blem,
Savij, xtrim, rūd, cruwl, nt t trust;
Injoid no snr bt dspîzid stret;
Past rīzn huntd; n no snr hd,
Past rīzn hetd, az a swoloud beit,
On prṗs leid t mc ɖ tecr mad.
Mad in psyt n in pześn so;
Hd, hvñ, n in qst t hv xtrim;
A blis in prūf, n pruvd, a vri wo;
Bfr, a jô pṛpozd; bhnd a drīm.
Ol ɖs ɖ wrld wel nz; yt nn nz wel
T śun ɖ hevn ɖt līdz men t ɖs hel.

"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925

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