Monday, November 18, 2013

SONNET XC

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
 Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
 Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
 And do not drop in for an after-loss:
 Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow,
 Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;
 Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
 To linger out a purposed overthrow.
 If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
 When other petty griefs have done their spite
 But in the onset come; so shall I taste
 At first the very worst of fortune's might,
     And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
     Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.

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