William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXVI
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 prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
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