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11-12-2008, 03:10 AM
Sonnet #94
XCIV.br /br /They that have power to hurt and will do none,br /That do not do the thing they most do show,br /Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,br /Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,br /They rightly do inherit heaven's gracesbr /And husband nature's riches from expense;br /They are the lords and owners of their faces,br /Others but stewards of their excellence.br /The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,br /Though to itself it only live and die,br /But if that flower with base infection meet,br /The basest weed outbraves his dignity:br /For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;br /Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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XCIV.br /br /They that have power to hurt and will do none,br /That do not do the thing they most do show,br /Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,br /Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,br /They rightly do inherit heaven's gracesbr /And husband nature's riches from expense;br /They are the lords and owners of their faces,br /Others but stewards of their excellence.br /The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,br /Though to itself it only live and die,br /But if that flower with base infection meet,br /The basest weed outbraves his dignity:br /For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;br /Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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