sentences:  Although the boy's beauty may be destroyed by time, time has also waned the speaker's love, making this destruction more bearable.As Stockard argues, "Shakespeare…constructs the sequence so as to demonstrate the consolation provided by the waning of the speaker's love, and in the final sonnet of the first subsequence the speaker accepts the consolation that changing reality provides".In accepting the reality of his unrequited, and ultimately shifting, love, the speaker is able to find peace, to some extent, in his relationship with the boy.