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Shakespeare's Sonnet XLIV / CLIV
01 : If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
02 : Injurious distance should not stop my way;
03 : For then despite of space I would be brought,
04 : From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
05 : No matter then although my foot did stand
06 : Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
07 : For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
08 : As soon as think the place where he would be.
09 : But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
10 : To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
11 : But that so much of earth and water wrought,
12 : I must attend, time's leisure with my moan;
13 : Receiving nought by elements so slow
14 : But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.