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 "title": "LXXXI",
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   {
    "text": "Or I shall live your epitaph to make,",
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   {
    "text": "Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;",
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   {
    "text": "From hence your memory death cannot take,",
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    "text": "Although in me each part will be forgotten.",
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   {
    "text": "Your name from hence immortal life shall have,",
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   {
    "text": "Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:",
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    "text": "The earth can yield me but a common grave,",
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    "text": "When you entombed in men’s eyes shall lie.",
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    "text": "Your monument shall be my gentle verse,",
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    "text": "Which eyes not yet created shall o’er-read,",
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   {
    "text": "And tongues to be your being shall rehearse",
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   {
    "text": "When all the breathers of this world are dead;",
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   {
    "text": "You still shall live⁠—such virtue hath my pen⁠—",
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    "text": "Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.",
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