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Sonnet XXXIII pdf version
 
Full many a glorious morning have I seen1
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,2
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,3
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;4
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride5
With ugly rack on his celestial face,6
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,7
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:8
Even so my sun one early morn did shine9
With all triumphant splendor on my brow;10
But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;11
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.12
    Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;13
    Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.14