Shakespeare's Sonnets

And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines(Sonnet-18)

What is saying in these two lines? Please explain.

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Basically the speaker says that the beauty of nature is only temporary. Winds "shake the buds of may"; sometimes the sun is too hot or not hot enough hidden by the clouds. His mistress's beauty, however, is constant.

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