Henry Ellison - On the Strangely Botched Endings of Some of Shakespear's Sonnets lyrics

O lame and impotent conclusion! 'Tis As some full stream should run not to the sea, But lose itself in sand, or stagnant be; Or proud steed his last winning leap should miss, And fall flat t'other side; or lovers kiss, And with their last word quarrel; or the bee Taint all the honey by the flower he Last s**ed from; or dove's coo end with snake's hiss! 'Tis like Adonis with a cloven foot; Fair woman fish-like ending; richest vein Of gold "at fault"; coarse patch in rarest suit; Mere discord in last notes of voice or strain Angelic -- strange all these! That he should do it, Who wrote what went before, more strange again!