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    "text": "Indeed this very love which is my boast,",
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   {
    "text": "And which, when rising up from breast to brow",
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    "text": "Doth crown me with a ruby large enow",
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   {
    "text": "To draw men’s eyes and prove the inner cost⁠—",
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    "text": "This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost,",
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    "text": "I should not love withal, unless that thou",
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    "text": "Hadst set me an example, shown me how,",
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    "text": "When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed,",
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    "text": "And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak",
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    "text": "Of love even, as a good thing of my own.",
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   {
    "text": "Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,",
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   {
    "text": "And placed it by thee on a golden throne⁠—",
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    "text": "And that I love, (O soul, we must be meek!)",
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    "text": "Is by thee only, whom I love alone.",
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