| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet XXXIII |
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| SONNET 33 |
| Full 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 mask'd him from me now. |
| Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; |
| Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. |
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