All The More Reason

If there was any doubt to the power and majesty of certain poetry, then one need look no further than this gallant paraphrase by Amanda Mabillard of a sonnet by Shakespeare. Here are the last two lines in the original:

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

And here is the paraphrase.

And yet I think my love as rare
As any woman who has been misrepresented by ridiculous comparisons.

J.S.