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    "text": "My name engraved herein",
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   {
    "text": "Doth contribute my firmness to this glass,",
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    "text": "Which ever since that charm hath been",
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    "text": "As hard, as that which graved it was;",
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    "text": "Thine eye will give it price enough, to mock",
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    "text": "The diamonds of either rock.",
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    "text": "’Tis much that glass should be",
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    "text": "As all-confessing, and through-shine as I;",
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    "text": "’Tis more that it shows thee to thee,",
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    "text": "And clear reflects thee to thine eye.",
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    "text": "But all such rules love’s magic can undo;",
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    "text": "Here you see me, and I am you.",
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    "text": "As no one point, nor dash,",
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    "text": "Which are but accessories to this name,",
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    "text": "The showers and tempests can outwash",
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    "text": "So shall all times find me the same;",
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    "text": "You this entireness better may fulfill,",
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    "text": "Who have the pattern with you still.",
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    "text": "Or if too hard and deep",
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    "text": "This learning be, for a scratch’d name to teach,",
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    "text": "It as a given death’s head keep,",
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    "text": "Lovers’ mortality to preach;",
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    "text": "Or think this ragged bony name to be",
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    "text": "My ruinous anatomy.",
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    "text": "Then, as all my souls be",
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    "text": "Emparadised in you⁠—in whom alone",
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    "text": "I understand, and grow, and see⁠—",
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    "text": "The rafters of my body, bone,",
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    "text": "Being still with you, the muscle, sinew, and vein",
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    "text": "Which tile this house, will come again.",
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    "text": "Till my return repair",
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    "text": "And recompact my scatter’d body so,",
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    "text": "As all the virtuous powers which are",
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    "text": "Fix’d in the stars are said to flow",
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    "text": "Into such characters as gravèd be",
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    "text": "When these stars have supremacy.",
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    "text": "So since this name was cut,",
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    "text": "When love and grief their exaltation had,",
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    "text": "No door ’gainst this name’s influence shut.",
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    "text": "As much more loving, as more sad,",
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    "text": "’Twill make thee; and thou shouldst, till I return,",
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    "text": "Since I die daily, daily mourn.",
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    "text": "When thy inconsiderate hand",
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    "text": "Flings ope this casement, with my trembling name,",
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    "text": "To look on one, whose wit or land",
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    "text": "New battery to thy heart may frame,",
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    "text": "Then think this name alive, and that thou thus",
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    "text": "In it offend’st my Genius.",
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    "text": "And when thy melted maid,",
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    "text": "Corrupted by thy lover’s gold and page,",
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    "text": "His letter at thy pillow hath laid,",
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   {
    "text": "Disputed it, and tamed thy rage,",
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   {
    "text": "And thou begin’st to thaw towards him, for this,",
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    "text": "May my name step in, and hide his.",
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    "text": "And if this treason go",
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    "text": "To an overt act and that thou write again,",
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    "text": "In superscribing, this name flow",
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    "text": "Into thy fancy from the pane;",
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    "text": "So, in forgetting thou rememb’rest right,",
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    "text": "And unaware to me shalt write.",
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    "text": "But glass and lines must be",
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    "text": "No means our firm substantial love to keep;",
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    "text": "Near death inflicts this lethargy,",
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    "text": "And this I murmur in my sleep;",
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    "text": "Impute this idle talk, to that I go,",
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    "text": "For dying men talk often so.",
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