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1 Let me not
to the marriage of
true minds
2 Admit
impediments
. Love is not love
3 Which alters when it
alteration
finds,
4 Or bends with the
remover
to remove.
5 Oh no! It is an ever fixed
mark
6 That looks on
tempests
and is never shaken.
7 It is the
star
to every wandering
bark
,
8 Whose
worth's unknown, although his
height be taken
.
9 Love's not Time's fool,
though rosy lips and cheeks
10 Within his bending
sickle's
compass come.
11 Love alters not with
his
brief hours and weeks,
12 But
bears it out
even to the
edge of doom
.
13 If
this be error and upon me
proved,
14 I never writ
, nor no man ever loved
.
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