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Sonnet 30 |
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought |
I summon up remembrance of things past,
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I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
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And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste; |
Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) |
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, |
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled
woe,
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And moan th'expense of many a vanished
sight.
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Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
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And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er |
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan, |
Which I new pay as if not paid before. |
But if the while I think on thee (dear friend) |
All losses are restored, and sorrows end. |
W. Shakespeare |
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