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Thread #12787   Message #102509
Posted By: Peter T.
05-Aug-99 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: Please help me think of something quick !
Subject: RE: Please help me think of something quick !
Dave, This may be a bit much, but I have recited this sonnet at a number of weddings, and always got a great response. Most people don't follow all the language, but the high points are clear. It is a beautiful thing read out loud, because of the alliteration, emphases and pauses. You can really impress people with your snazzy Elizabethan!!
yours, Peter T.

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.
Oh, no. It is an ever-fixéd 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. -- (Shakespeare).