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Shakespeare's Sonnet #57 Being your slave what |
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Written by Wilma Zalabak, M.Div.
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Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:58 |
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Though Shakespeare wrote it of human love, it is like the love You have put in my heart for You, my God.
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. So true a fool is love, that in your will, (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.
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