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    "text": "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame",
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    "text": "The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,",
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    "text": "Will play the tyrants to the very same",
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    "text": "And that unfair which fairly doth excel;",
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    "text": "For never-resting time leads summer on",
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    "text": "To hideous winter and confounds him there;",
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    "text": "Sap check’d with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,",
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    "text": "Then, were not summer’s distillation left,",
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    "text": "A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,",
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    "text": "Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,",
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    "text": "But flowers distill’d, though they with winter meet,",
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