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 "id": "william-shakespeare/cxxxvii",
 "title": "CXXXVII",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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    "text": "Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "That they behold, and see not what they see?",
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   {
    "text": "They know what beauty is, see where it lies,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet what the best is take the worst to be.",
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   {
    "text": "If eyes corrupt by over-partial looks",
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   {
    "text": "Be anchor’d in the bay where all men ride,",
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   {
    "text": "Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forged hooks,",
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    "text": "Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?",
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    "text": "Why should my heart think that a several plot",
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   {
    "text": "Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place?",
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   {
    "text": "Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not,",
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   {
    "text": "To put fair truth upon so foul a face?",
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   {
    "text": "In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,",
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    "text": "And to this false plague are they now transferr’d.",
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