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| 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-fixèd mark, | ||
| That looks on tempests and is never shaken; | ||
| It is the star to every wandering barque, | ||
| 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. | ||
| By William Shakespeare. | ||