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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 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. |
NOTES: Perhaps Shakespeare’s greatest sonnet, the poet here remarks in clear and simple language on the eternal and unchanging nature of true love between kindred spirits. Line 5, ever-fixèd: eternal; mark: a seamark—ie, a lighthouse of beacon. Line 7, the star: Polaris, the pole star; wandering bark: lost ship. Line 12, doom: ie, Doomsday. |
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