Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight

How can I then return in happy plightThat am debarred the benefit of rest?When day's oppression is not eased by night,But day by night, and night by day oppressed?And each, though enemies to either's reign,Do in consent shake hands to torture me,The one by toil, the other to complainHow far I toil, still farther off from thee.I tell the day, to please him, thou art brightAnd dost him grace when

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