Tuesday, February 15, 2011

On Valentine's Day

Sonnet 116
(the original with my own re-phrasing)

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,

whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

                     If this be error and upon me proved,
                            I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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