Heigh-Ho Begins! Sonnet 116...with a twist

To kick off this rather unconventional blog-party, I hope you will excuse some liberties taken with Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116. (You know..."Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds...") I thought it might be rather a humorous business to write a parody on it. I am not saying that it comes anything close to Shakespeare, I am not even saying that I think it very good. All I am saying is that I tried, and that's all anyone is entitled to do. :) One may imagine this to have been written by a pessimistic old woman--it certainly doesn't reflect my views on love. :D

Sonnet 116--Reprise:

Let them not to the marriage of old maids

Rain down sentiments. Love's still quite love

Which alters with the feeble minds--

It bends with the reprover to reprove:

Oh yes, it is an ever-fixed rule

That looks on singles and is ever shaken.

That views old teachers in the school

And winks at liberties half-taken. 

Love is Time's fool, when withered lips and cheeks

Within his virgin circle's compass come:

Love alters much o'er hours and weeks

And fadeth out to the edge of doom.

If this be the truth, and my mind is prov'd,

I am a wit that no man ever lov'd.