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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Let not my love be call’d idolatry”
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LET not my love be call’d idolatry |
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Nor my beloved as an idol show, |
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Since all alike my songs and praises be |
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To one, of one, still such, and ever so. |
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Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind, |
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Still constant in a wondrous excellence; |
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Therefore my verse, to constancy confin’d, |
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One thing expressing, leaves out difference. |
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‘Fair, kind, and true,’ is all my argument, |
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‘Fair, kind, and true,’ varying to other words; |
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And in this change is my invention spent, |
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Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords. |
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‘Fair, kind, and true,’ have often liv’d alone, |
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Which three till now never kept seat in one. |
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