| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet XLIV |
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| SONNET 44 |
| If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, |
| Injurious distance should not stop my way; |
| For then despite of space I would be brought, |
| From limits far remote where thou dost stay. |
| No matter then although my foot did stand |
| Upon the farthest earth removed from thee; |
| For nimble thought can jump both sea and land |
| As soon as think the place where he would be. |
| But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought, |
| To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone, |
| But that so much of earth and water wrought |
| I must attend time's leisure with my moan, |
| Receiving nought by elements so slow |
| But heavy tears, badges of either's woe. |
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