Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text/Sonnet 33
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Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; 4
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: 8
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all-triumphant splendour on my brow;
But, out! alack! he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. 12
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.
2 sovereign eye: eye of a king
6 rack: clouds in the upper air
8 disgrace: disfigurement
12 region cloud: cloud of heaven
14 may stain: may be obscured
staineth: is obscured