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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind”
Sonnet CXIII
SINCE I left you, mine eye is in my mind |
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And that which governs me to go about |
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Doth part his function and is partly blind, |
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Seems seeing, but effectually is out; |
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For it no form delivers to the heart |
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Of bird, of flower, or shape, which it doth latch: |
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Of his quick objects hath the mind no part, |
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Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch; |
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For if it see the rud’st or gentlest sight, |
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The most sweet favour or deformed’st creature, |
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The mountain or the sea, the day or night, |
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The crow or dove, it shapes them to your feature: |
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Incapable of more, replete with you, |
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My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue. |
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