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The translater to modern English is actually English from the 19th century, so it did not go back to my original, but this is close to what I originally wrote, and you can see slight changes that needed to be made to sound more Shakespearean:
sonnet on my visit to the future
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I can't believe all of the things I see:
the streets with such strange vehicles which wend
their way so quickly like the ones that flee
like metal lions. Never have I penned
a sonnet on such vehicles and highways.
Never have I felt so unbelieving.
I hope that I might travel every byway.
Above me in the sky, huge birds are leaving.
of metal too are they. They are like magic!
oh, my, how women here show off their bodies
and how the men act causes me alarm.
and oh, the air. How can the folks refresh?
Tall buildings, so few farms, and such big towns.
So crazy are the folks here and their sounds!
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