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    "text": "Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said",
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    "text": "Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,",
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   {
    "text": "Which but to-day by feeding is allay’d,",
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    "text": "To-morrow sharpen’d in his former might:",
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   {
    "text": "So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill",
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    "text": "Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fulness,",
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    "text": "To-morrow see again, and do not kill",
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    "text": "The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.",
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    "text": "Let this sad interim like the ocean be",
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    "text": "Which parts the shore, where two contracted new",
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    "text": "Come daily to the banks, that, when they see",
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   {
    "text": "Return of love, more blest may be the view;",
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    "text": "Else call it winter, which being full of care",
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    "text": "Makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.",
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