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Sonnet 54: O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Sonnet 54: O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem

By William ShakespeareSource: William Shakespeare - PoetryDB (Public Domain)103 words

O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem

By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem

For that sweet odour, which doth in it live.

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