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<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">SONNET 126<br>O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power<br>Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;<br>Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st<br>Thy lovers withering as thy sweet self grow'st;<br>If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,<br>As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,<br>She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill<br>May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.<br>Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure;<br>She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:<br> Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be,<br> And her quietus is to render thee.<br></p><span><br></span><br>