Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments
Let me not to the marriage
of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is
not love
Which alters when it alteration
finds,
Or bends with the remover
to remove:
O no! it is an ever fixed
mark
That looks on tempests and
is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering
bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although
his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though
rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's
compass come:
Love alters not with his
brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to
the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon
me proved,
I never writ, nor no man
ever loved.