Love is no ever-fixéd mark - can't be,
For once it was not, and by now it is.
What's more, it's known to lack eternity
In place, for what is mine now once was his.
No, love is fixed only because it sees
A common sort of soul, and reaches out
To join two people so that each may please
The other. If this thought breed any doubt,
Consider this: if two are joinéd so,
And each maintains that common piece of soul
Their hearts remain entwined, and love will grow
Upon the jointure, long as it is whole.
Love is unfixed only when people alter
Their common joy - and then it ought to falter.
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