Wuthering Heights: A Sonnet

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The universe turns a mighty stranger

When one perishing takes with one a heart;

Or if all else would perish no danger

Would come those perishing refused to part.


Proud people for themselves sad sorrows sow

When for marriage against true love revolts

And vow against the substance of one's soul

As moonbeams vow themselves to lightning bolts.


Like foliage love that kind seasons pass

And true love's: the unchanging rocks beneath

Where cruelty with cruel fate will harass

As Cathy willed her choice away from Heath.


Now returned, three graves wed, to wuthered stone

Where lie, in time, their cursed sad sorrows sown.


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