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 "title": "LXV",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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    "text": "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,",
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   {
    "text": "But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,",
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   {
    "text": "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose action is no stronger than a flower?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out",
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   {
    "text": "Against the wrackful siege of battering days,",
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   {
    "text": "When rocks impregnable are not so stout,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?",
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   {
    "text": "O fearful meditation! where, alack,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall Time’s best jewel from Time’s chest lie hid?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?",
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   {
    "text": "Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?",
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   {
    "text": "O, none, unless this miracle have might,",
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   {
    "text": "That in black ink my love may still shine bright.",
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