Sonnet 57

Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 3 p.m.

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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.
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0So true a fool is love that in your will
\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0(Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.

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