This seems to me to be one of the loveliest songs of summer:
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By hange or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
The AI’s interpretation in the comtemporary style:
You, Compared to Summer
after Shakespeare
Should I compare you to a summer day?
You’re softer.
More balanced.
Summer can be wild—
winds tossing blossoms around,
heat overstaying its welcome.
The season doesn’t last.
Its lease is short.
Too bright sometimes,
then clouded over.
But your beauty—
it doesn’t fade.
It won’t wrinkle in time’s pages,
won’t be erased by death’s edits.
Because I’ve written you into this—
a few lines,
a breath held in verse—
and as long as people read,
you’ll live.
Right here.
Right now.
Always.