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Not sure how long I'm going to be up, tonight, and so I thought I would post this now, rather than wait for Saturday morning. (Surely it already is Saturday somewhere close at hand!)

For the Bloggers Silent Poetry Reading, a favorite poem by William Shakespeare, one that I memorized a very long time ago.

Sonnet XIV.

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well,
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As ‘Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;’
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
‘Thy end is truth’s and beauty’s doom and date.'



I have also put the one of my own that I like the best, "Vision Stalker," at http://www.themomentsbetween.blogspot.com