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10-17-2008, 02:10 AM
Sonnet #83
LXXXIII.br /br /I never saw that you did painting needbr /And therefore to your fair no painting set;br /I found, or thought I found, you did exceedbr /The barren tender of a poet's debt;br /And therefore have I slept in your report,br /That you yourself being extant well might showbr /How far a modern quill doth come too short,br /Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.br /This silence for my sin you did impute,br /Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;br /For I impair not beauty being mute,br /When others would give life and bring a tomb.br /There lives more life in one of your fair eyesbr /Than both your poets can in praise devise.
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LXXXIII.br /br /I never saw that you did painting needbr /And therefore to your fair no painting set;br /I found, or thought I found, you did exceedbr /The barren tender of a poet's debt;br /And therefore have I slept in your report,br /That you yourself being extant well might showbr /How far a modern quill doth come too short,br /Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.br /This silence for my sin you did impute,br /Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;br /For I impair not beauty being mute,br /When others would give life and bring a tomb.br /There lives more life in one of your fair eyesbr /Than both your poets can in praise devise.
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