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 "title": "LXXVII",
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    "text": "Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These vacant leaves thy mind’s imprint will bear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And of this book this learning mayst thou taste.",
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   {
    "text": "The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show",
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   {
    "text": "Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;",
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   {
    "text": "Thou by thy dial’s shady stealth mayst know",
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    "text": "Time’s thievish progress to eternity.",
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    "text": "Look, what thy memory cannot contain",
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   {
    "text": "Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find",
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    "text": "Those children nursed, deliver’d from thy brain,",
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    "text": "To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.",
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    "text": "These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,",
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    "text": "Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.",
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