NCiR’ Pilin’ On
What You Will, Will
Inspired by Laura Sheridan’s “Happy Birthday, Will”
Remembering William Shakespeare’s birthday,
Ms. Sheridan wrote a beautiful poem.
She praised the plays the playwright had penned.
With these fun facts, you’ll feel like you know him.
Will was eighteen; Anne was twenty-six.
With child was Hathaway when they were wed.
Anne birthed their daughter, followed by twins.
Will’s will left Anne his “second-best bed.”
Will mastered reading, writing and Latin.
His parents were likely illiterate.
His children, too, missed out on schooling.
“To be” was “not to be” — not considerate.
Nobody knows what Will did between
Fifteen-eighty-five and fifteen-ninety-two.
There’s still speculation ’bout what he didn’t.
Seems About Nothing there’s still Much Ado.
Will Shakespeare died at a young fifty-two.
His tomb’s in a church beneath well-marked stones.
In all these years, his remains undisturbed,
Epitaph: “ … cursed be he (who) moves my…
