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 "title": "To Mr. Thomas Woodward",
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    "text": "At once from hence my lines and I depart,",
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   {
    "text": "I to my soft still walks, they to my heart,",
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   {
    "text": "I to the nurse, they to the child of art.",
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    "text": "Yet as a firm house, though the carpenter",
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   {
    "text": "Perish, doth stand; as an ambassador",
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    "text": "Lies safe, howe’er his king be in danger;",
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    "text": "So, though I languish, press’d with melancholy,",
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   {
    "text": "My verse, the strict map of my misery,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall live to see that, for whose want I die.",
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    "text": "Therefore I envy them, and do repent,",
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    "text": "That from unhappy me, things happy are sent.",
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    "text": "Yet as a picture, or bare sacrament,",
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    "text": "Accept these lines, and if in them there be",
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    "text": "Merit of love, bestow that love on me.",
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