Friday 21 July 2017

Sonnet 116 ~ Wm. Shakespeare

Looking at these entwined Hoary Plantains (on the Kent Rare Plant Register), we were put in mind of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 viz.


'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:
Oh no: it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken:
It is the star to ever 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.'

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