sentences:  While previous sonnets of this sequence act to console against attempt to circumvent time's inevitable destructive victory, scholars have argued that 126 concedes the point.Rather than suggest that the boy can indeed find a way around time, "here the speaker makes no such proposals; this twelve-line poem lacks the final two lines where, in the sonnet, the speaker often constructs his consolations.By the end of this subsequence, mutability has proved to be the speaker's ally rather than a foe to be defeated.