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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CIII</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,<BR> | |
| That having such a scope to show her pride,<BR> | |
| The argument all bare is of more worth<BR> | |
| Than when it hath my added praise beside!<BR> | |
| O, blame me not, if I no more can write!<BR> | |
| Look in your glass, and there appears a face<BR> | |
| That over-goes my blunt invention quite,<BR> | |
| Dulling my lines and doing me disgrace.<BR> | |
| Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,<BR> | |
| To mar the subject that before was well?<BR> | |
| For to no other pass my verses tend<BR> | |
| Than of your graces and your gifts to tell;<BR> | |
| And more, much more, than in my verse can sit<BR> | |
| Your own glass shows you when you look in it.<BR> | |
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