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Sonnet CXXXII pdf version
 
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,1
Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,2
Have put on black and loving mourners be,3
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.4
And truly not the morning sun of heaven5
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,6
Nor that full star that ushers in the even7
Doth half that glory to the sober west,8
As those two mourning eyes become thy face:9
O, let it then as well beseem thy heart10
To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee grace,11
And suit thy pity like in every part.12
    Then will I swear beauty herself is black13
    And all they foul that thy complexion lack.14