William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet LVII
Being your
slave what should I do but tend,
Upon the hours, and
times of your desire?
I have no precious
time at all to spend;
Nor services to do,
till you require.
Nor dare I chide the
world-without-end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign,
watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness
of absence sour,
When you have bid
your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question
with my jealous thought
Where you may be,
or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave,
stay and think of nought
Save, where you are,
how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love, that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.
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