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Shakespeare's Sonnet 50


  1    How heavy do I journey on the way,
  2    When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
  3    Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
  4    'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
  5    The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
  6    Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
  7    As if by some instinct the wretch did know
  8    His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:
  9    The bloody spur cannot provoke him on
 10    That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;
 11    Which heavily he answers with a groan,
 12    More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
 13      For that same groan doth put this in my mind;
 14      My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
"The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on
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