William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXIII
Since I left
you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs
me to go about
Doth part his function
and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but
effectually is out;
For it no form delivers
to the heart
Of bird, of flower,
or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects
hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision
holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the
rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour
or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the
sea, the day or night:
The crow, or dove,
it shapes them to your feature.
Incapable of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.
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