Not Time's Fool (Sonnet 116)

from Shakespeare's Sonnets Reborn (Demos) by Jonathan Salem Baskin

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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 the 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.

Love's not time's fool.

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from Shakespeare's Sonnets Reborn (Demos), released March 6, 2023
Lyrics: William Shakespeare
Music: Jonathan Salem Baskin

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