Sunday, November 17, 2013

SONNET XXXVI

Let me confess that we two must be twain,
 Although our undivided loves are one:
 So shall those blots that do with me remain
 Without thy help by me be borne alone.
 In our two loves there is but one respect,
 Though in our lives a separable spite,
 Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
 Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
 I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
 Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
 Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
 Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
     But do not so; I love thee in such sort
     As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

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