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   {
    "text": "When I shall be divorced, some ten years hence,",
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   {
    "text": "From this poor present self which I am now;",
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   {
    "text": "When youth has done its tedious vain expense",
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   {
    "text": "Of passions that for ever ebb and flow;",
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   {
    "text": "Shall I not joy youth’s heats are left behind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And breathe more happy in an even clime?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah no! for then I shall begin to find",
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   {
    "text": "A thousand virtues in this hated time.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then I shall wish its agitations back,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all its thwarting currents of desire;",
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   {
    "text": "Then I shall praise the heat which then I lack,",
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   {
    "text": "And call this hurrying fever, generous fire,",
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   {
    "text": "And sigh that one thing only has been lent",
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   {
    "text": "To youth and age in common⁠—discontent.",
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