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10-10-2008, 02:10 AM
Sonnet #80
LXXX.br /br /O, how I faint when I of you do write,br /Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,br /And in the praise thereof spends all his might,br /To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!br /But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,br /The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,br /My saucy bark inferior far to hisbr /On your broad main doth wilfully appear.br /Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,br /Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;br /Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat,br /He of tall building and of goodly pride:br /Then if he thrive and I be cast away,br /The worst was this; my love was my decay.
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LXXX.br /br /O, how I faint when I of you do write,br /Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,br /And in the praise thereof spends all his might,br /To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!br /But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,br /The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,br /My saucy bark inferior far to hisbr /On your broad main doth wilfully appear.br /Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,br /Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;br /Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat,br /He of tall building and of goodly pride:br /Then if he thrive and I be cast away,br /The worst was this; my love was my decay.
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