1593-1603 by Shakespeare 
Sonnet 64 

1	When I have seen by time’s fell hand defaced
2	The rich proud cost of outworn buried age#
3	When sometime-lofty towers I see down razed,
4	And brass eternal slave to mortal rage#
5	When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
6	Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
7	And the firm soil win of the wat’ry main,
8	Increasing store with loss and loss with store#
9	When I have seen such interchange of state,
10	Or state itself confounded to decay,
11	Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate:
12	That time will come and take my love away.
13	This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
14	But weep to have that which it fears to lose.