SONNET #33

by: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

ULL many a glorious morning have I seen

Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,

Kissing with golden face the meadows green,

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;

Anon permit the basest clouds to ride

With ugly rack on his celestial face,

And from the forlorn world his visage hide,

Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:

Even so my sun one early morn did shine

With all-triumphant splendor on my brow;

But, out alack, he was but one hour mine,

The region cloud hath masked him from me now.

Yet him for this my love no white disdaineth;

Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

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