William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet XXXV
No more be
griev'd 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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