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VIII
- Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
- Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy,
- Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly?
- Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
- If the true concord of well-tuned sounds
- By unions married, do offend thine ear,
- They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
- In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
- Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
- Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
- Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
- Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing;
- Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
- Sings this to thee, 'thou single wilt prove none.'
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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