| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet XXXIX |
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| SONNET 39 |
| O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, |
| When thou art all the better part of me? |
| What can mine own praise to mine own self bring? |
| And what is 't but mine own when I praise thee? |
| Even for this let us divided live, |
| And our dear love lose name of single one, |
| That by this separation I may give |
| That due to thee which thou deservest alone. |
| O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove, |
| Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave |
| To entertain the time with thoughts of love, |
| Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive, |
| And that thou teachest how to make one twain, |
| By praising him here who doth hence remain! |
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