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How to Learn Touch Typing Without Bad HabitsSonnet 33, full many a glorious morning
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Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my brow;
But out! alack!
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The sonnets of William Shakespeare were printed in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe, in a collection of 154 poems. Sonnet 33 turns a sunrise and a passing cloud into a picture of friendship. The order of the poems in that first printing is the only one we have. Project Gutenberg carries the whole sequence.
About this text
The sonnets of William Shakespeare were printed in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe, in a collection of 154 poems. Sonnet 33 turns a sunrise and a passing cloud into a picture of friendship. The order of the poems in that first printing is the only one we have. Project Gutenberg carries the whole sequence.
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Each line ends in punctuation, so the exercise drills the comma and semicolon keys at every line break.
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