William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CIX
O! never say
that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd
my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from
my self depart
As from my soul which
in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of
love: if I have rang'd,
Like him that travels,
I return again;
Just to the time,
not with the time exchang'd,
So that myself bring
water for my stain.
Never believe though
in my nature reign'd,
All frailties that
besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously
be stain'd,
To leave for nothing
all thy sum of good;
For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all.
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