Shakespeare Sonnet 9

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Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,

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That thou consum'st thy self in single life?

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Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,

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The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;

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The world will be thy widow and still weep

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That thou no form of thee hast left behind,

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When every private widow well may keep

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By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:

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Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend

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Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;

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But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,

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And kept unused the user so destroys it.

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No love toward others in that bosom sits

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That on himself such murd'rous shame commits.