William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet XXXVII
As a decrepit
father takes delight
To see his active
child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by
Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort
of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty,
birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all,
or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts,
do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted,
to this store:
So then I am not lame,
poor, nor despis'd,
Whilst that this shadow
doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance
am suffic'd,
And by a part of all
thy glory live.
Look what is best, that best I wish in thee:
This wish I have; then ten times happy me!
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