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04-03-2009, 02:10 AM
Sonnet #1
I.br /br /FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,br /That thereby beauty's rose might never die,br /But as the riper should by time decease,br /His tender heir might bear his memory:br /But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,br /Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,br /Making a famine where abundance lies,br /Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.br /Thou that art now the world's fresh ornamentbr /And only herald to the gaudy spring,br /Within thine own bud buriest thy contentbr /And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.br /Pity the world, or else this glutton be,br /To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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I.br /br /FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,br /That thereby beauty's rose might never die,br /But as the riper should by time decease,br /His tender heir might bear his memory:br /But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,br /Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,br /Making a famine where abundance lies,br /Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.br /Thou that art now the world's fresh ornamentbr /And only herald to the gaudy spring,br /Within thine own bud buriest thy contentbr /And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.br /Pity the world, or else this glutton be,br /To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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