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 "title": "III",
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    "text": "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest",
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   {
    "text": "Now is the time that face should form another;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.",
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   {
    "text": "For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb",
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   {
    "text": "Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?",
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   {
    "text": "Or who is he so fond will be the tomb",
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    "text": "Of his self-love, to stop posterity?",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Calls back the lovely April of her prime:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So thou through windows of thine age shalt see",
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   {
    "text": "Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.",
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   {
    "text": "But if thou live, remember’d not to be,",
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    "text": "Die single, and thine image dies with thee.",
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