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| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXIX</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,<BR> | |
| Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,<BR> | |
| Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,<BR> | |
| Still losing when I saw myself to win!<BR> | |
| What wretched errors hath my heart committed,<BR> | |
| Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!<BR> | |
| How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted<BR> | |
| In the distraction of this madding fever!<BR> | |
| O benefit of ill! now I find true<BR> | |
| That better is by evil still made better;<BR> | |
| And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,<BR> | |
| Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.<BR> | |
| So I return rebuked to my content<BR> | |
| And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.<BR> | |
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