| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet XXXV |
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| SONNET 35 |
| No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: |
| Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; |
| Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, |
| And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. |
| All men make faults, and even I in this, |
| Authorizing thy trespass with compare, |
| Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss, |
| Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are; |
| For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense-- |
| Thy adverse party is thy advocate-- |
| And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence: |
| Such civil war is in my love and hate |
| That I an accessary needs must be |
| To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. |
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