William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CXLVIII
O me! what
eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence
with true sight;
Or, if they have,
where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely
what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon
my false eyes dote,
What means the world
to say it is not so?
If it be not, then
love doth well denote
Love's eye is not
so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how
can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with
watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though
I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees
not, till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.
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