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 "id": "william-shakespeare/cviii",
 "title": "CVIII",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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 "book": "Shake-speares Sonnets",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "What’s in the brain that ink may character",
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   {
    "text": "Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What’s new to speak, what now to register,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That may express my love or thy dear merit?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I must each day say o’er the very same,",
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   {
    "text": "Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even as when first I hallow’d thy fair name.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So that eternal love in love’s fresh case",
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   {
    "text": "Weighs not the dust and injury of age,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,",
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   {
    "text": "But makes antiquity for aye his page,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Finding the first conceit of love there bred",
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   {
    "text": "Where time and outward form would show it dead.",
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