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| <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Sonnet CII</TITLE></HEAD> | |
| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CII</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;<BR> | |
| I love not less, though less the show appear:<BR> | |
| That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming<BR> | |
| The owner's tongue doth publish every where.<BR> | |
| Our love was new and then but in the spring<BR> | |
| When I was wont to greet it with my lays,<BR> | |
| As Philomel in summer's front doth sing<BR> | |
| And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:<BR> | |
| Not that the summer is less pleasant now<BR> | |
| Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,<BR> | |
| But that wild music burthens every bough<BR> | |
| And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.<BR> | |
| Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,<BR> | |
| Because I would not dull you with my song.<BR> | |
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