Monday, January 28, 2013

I love and yet am forced to seem to hate ...


I grieve and dare not show my discontent.
 I love and yet am forced to seem to hate.
 I do yet not say I ever meant. 
I seem stark mute, yet inwardly do prate. 
I am and not. I freeze yet am burned. 
Since from myself another self I turn. 
My care is like my shadow in the sun. 
It follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, stands and lies by me, does what I have done.
Or let me live with some more sweet content, or die. 
And so forget what love ere meant.

Hugh Dancy 
---Queen Elizabeth  I
Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons

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