Sunday, November 17, 2013

SONNET XXXV

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
 Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
 Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
 And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
 All men make faults, and even I in this,
 Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
 Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
 Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
 For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense--
 Thy adverse party is thy advocate--
 And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
 Such civil war is in my love and hate
     That I an accessary needs must be
     To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.

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