Wednesday, June 12, 2013

SONNET 116

1 Let me not to the marriage of true minds

2 Admit impediments. Love is not love

3 Which alters when alteration finds.

4 Or bends with the remover to remove.

5 O, no it is an ever-fixed mark

6 That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;

7 It is the star to every wandering bark,

8 Whose worth's unknown, although his height but taken.

9 Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

10 Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

11 Love alters not his brief hours and weeks,

12 But bears it out ev’n to the edge of doom---

13 If this be error, and upon me proved,

14 I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

----- William Shakespeare

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