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Sonnet 7


Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
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Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,
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Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
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Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
  So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon,
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  Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.







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