Shakespeare's Sonnets: O never say that I was false of heart

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O never say that I was false of heart,Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify.As easy might I from my self departAs from my soul which in thy breast doth lie.That is my home of love: if I have rang'dLike him that travels, I return again,Just to the time, not with the time exchang'd,So that my self bring water for my stain.Never believe, though in my nature reign'dAll frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,That it could so prepost'rously be stain'dTo leave for nothing all thy sum of good: For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose: in it thou art my all.

© William Shakespeare