Fall break :)

Beginning of Fall Break!  Most of the leaves are changing to peak colors now  J  and I’m reading sonnet 26 today:

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XXVI

  Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

  Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,

  To thee I send this written embassage,

  To witness duty, not to show my wit:

  Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine

  May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,

  But that I hope some good conceit of thine

  In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:

  Till whatsoever star that guides my moving,

  Points on me graciously with fair aspect,

  And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,

  To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:

    Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;

    Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.

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Okay, I’m calling the then at the beginning of the closing couplet the volta.  There’s more to the sonnet than that, but I must get on the highway now (to pick up my daughter  J).  More tomorrow—