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| <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Sonnet CXXIV</TITLE></HEAD> | |
| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CXXIV</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>If my dear love were but the child of state,<BR> | |
| It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd'<BR> | |
| As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,<BR> | |
| Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather'd.<BR> | |
| No, it was builded far from accident;<BR> | |
| It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls<BR> | |
| Under the blow of thralled discontent,<BR> | |
| Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:<BR> | |
| It fears not policy, that heretic,<BR> | |
| Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,<BR> | |
| But all alone stands hugely politic,<BR> | |
| That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.<BR> | |
| To this I witness call the fools of time,<BR> | |
| Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.<BR> | |
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