…when Shakespeare she did marry,
though she could not know
just how long away.
Anne thought herself
to be quite the star,
yet it was William
who would be crowned.
Four hundred years it took,
from Stratford to Prada.
Four hundred years,
her light was dulled,
cast down
by husband's glory.
But persist, she did;
Four hundred years later,
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