Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to
remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is
never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s
unknown, although his height be taken
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy
lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters
not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no
man ever loved.
-William Shakespeare
(year 1609)
( the summary can be found here: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section7.rhtml)
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