How can I then return in happy plight <br />That am debarred the benefit of rest? <br />When day's oppression is not eased by night, <br />But day by night, and night by day oppressed? <br />And each, though enemies to either's reign, <br />Do in consent shake hands to torture me, <br />The one by toil, the other to complain <br />How far I toil, still farther off from thee. <br />I tell the day, to please him, thou art bright <br />And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven; <br />So flatter I the swart-complexioned night, <br />When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even. <br /> But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer, <br /> And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger.<br /><br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-28-how-can-i-then-return-in-happy-plight/
