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| <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Sonnet CXLIII</TITLE></HEAD> | |
| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXLIII</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch<BR> | |
| One of her feather'd creatures broke away,<BR> | |
| Sets down her babe and makes an swift dispatch<BR> | |
| In pursuit of the thing she would have stay,<BR> | |
| Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,<BR> | |
| Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent<BR> | |
| To follow that which flies before her face,<BR> | |
| Not prizing her poor infant's discontent;<BR> | |
| So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee,<BR> | |
| Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind;<BR> | |
| But if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,<BR> | |
| And play the mother's part, kiss me, be kind:<BR> | |
| So will I pray that thou mayst have thy 'Will,'<BR> | |
| If thou turn back, and my loud crying still.<BR> | |
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