render me immortal.

I am such a nerd.
A romantic one too. (lol)
a few minutes ago, I was browsing through my old literature book, the one that consists an adequate collection of poems, and I saw this one piece that caught my eye:

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washed it away:

Again I wrote it with a second hand,

But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay

A mortal thing so to immortalize,

For I myself shall like to this decay,

And eek my name be wiped out likewise.

Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:

My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,

And in the heavens write your glorious name.

Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue,

Out love shall live, and later life renew.

(Sonnet 75, by Edmund Spenser)