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    "text": "If thou must love me, let it be for nought",
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    "text": "Except for love’s sake only. Do not say",
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    "text": "“I love her for her smile⁠—her look⁠—her way",
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    "text": "Of speaking gently⁠—for a trick of thought",
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    "text": "That falls in well with mine, and certes brought",
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    "text": "A sense of pleasant ease on such a day,”⁠—",
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    "text": "For these things in themselves, Beloved, may",
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    "text": "Be changed, or change for thee⁠—and love so wrought",
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    "text": "May be unwrought so. Neither love me for",
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    "text": "Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry:",
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    "text": "A creature might forget to weep, who bore",
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    "text": "Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby.",
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    "text": "But love me for love’s sake, that evermore",
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    "text": "Thou mayst love on through love’s eternity.",
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