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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 9: “Is it for fear to wet a widow`s eye…”
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Is it for fear to wet a widow`s eye,
  That thou consum`st thy self in single life?
  Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
  The world will wail thee like a makeless wife,
  The world will be thy widow and still weep,
  That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
  When every private widow well may keep,
  By children`s eyes, her husband`s shape in mind:
  Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
  Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
  But beauty`s waste hath in the world an end,
  And kept unused the user so destroys it:  
    No love toward others in that bosom sits
    That on himself such murd`rous shame commits.
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