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    "text": "No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace",
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   {
    "text": "As I have seen in one autumnal face;",
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    "text": "Young beauties force our love, and that’s a rape;",
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    "text": "This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.",
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    "text": "If ’twere a shame to love, here ’twere no shame;",
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    "text": "Affections here take reverence’s name.",
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    "text": "Were her first years the Golden Age? that’s true,",
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    "text": "But now they’re gold oft tried, and ever new.",
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    "text": "That was her torrid and inflaming time;",
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    "text": "This is her tolerable tropic clime.",
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    "text": "Fair eyes; who asks more heat than comes from hence,",
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    "text": "He in a fever wishes pestilence.",
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    "text": "Call not these wrinkles, graves; if graves they were,",
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    "text": "They were Love’s graves, for else he is nowhere.",
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    "text": "Yet lies not Love dead here, but here doth sit,",
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    "text": "Vow’d to this trench, like an anachorite,",
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    "text": "And here, till hers, which must be his death, come,",
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    "text": "He doth not dig a grave, but build a tomb.",
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    "text": "Here dwells he; though he sojourn everywhere",
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    "text": "In progress, yet his standing house is here;",
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    "text": "Here, where still evening is, not noon, nor night;",
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    "text": "Where no voluptuousness, yet all delight.",
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   {
    "text": "In all her words, unto all hearers fit,",
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    "text": "You may at revels, you at council, sit.",
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    "text": "This is love’s timber; youth his underwood;",
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    "text": "There he, as wine in June, enrages blood;",
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    "text": "Which then comes seasonablest, when our taste",
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    "text": "And appetite to other things is past.",
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    "text": "Xerxes’ strange Lydian love, the platane tree,",
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    "text": "Was loved for age, none being so large as she;",
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    "text": "Or else because, being young, nature did bless",
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    "text": "Her youth with age’s glory, barrenness.",
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    "text": "If we love things long sought, age is a thing",
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    "text": "Which we are fifty years in compassing;",
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    "text": "If transitory things, which soon decay,",
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    "text": "Age must be loveliest at the latest day.",
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    "text": "But name not winter faces, whose skin’s slack,",
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   {
    "text": "Lank as an unthrift’s purse, but a soul’s sack;",
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    "text": "Whose eyes seek light within, for all here’s shade;",
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    "text": "Whose mouths are holes, rather worn out, than made;",
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    "text": "Whose every tooth to a several place is gone,",
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    "text": "To vex their souls at resurrection;",
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    "text": "Name not these living death-heads unto me,",
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    "text": "For these, not ancient, but antique be.",
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    "text": "I hate extremes; yet I had rather stay",
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    "text": "With tombs than cradles, to wear out a day.",
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    "text": "Since such love’s motion natural is, may still",
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    "text": "My love descend, and journey down the hill,",
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    "text": "Not panting after growing beauties; so",
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    "text": "I shall ebb out with them who homeward go.",
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