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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes”
Sonnet CXXXVII
| THOU blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes |
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| That they behold, and see not what they see? |
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| They know what beauty is, see where it lies, |
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| Yet what the best is take the worst to be. |
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| If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks, |
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| Be anchor’d in the bay where all men ride, |
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| Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forged hooks, |
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| Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied? |
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| Why should my heart think that a several plot |
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| Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place? |
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| Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not, |
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| To put fair truth upon so foul a face? |
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| In things right true my heart and eyes have err’d, |
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| And to this false plague are they now transferr’d. |
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