William Shakespeare
1564-1616
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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