William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXXXVII
Thou blind
fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
That they behold,
and see not what they see?
They know what beauty
is, see where it lies,
Yet what the best
is take the worst to be.
If eyes, corrupt by
over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the
bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes' falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment
of my heart is tied?
Why should my heart
think that a several plot,
Which my heart knows
the wide world's common place?
Or mine eyes, seeing
this, say this is not,
To put fair truth
upon so foul a face?
In things right true my heart and eyes have err'd,
And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.
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