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    "text": "The forward violet thus did I chide:",
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    "text": "Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,",
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    "text": "If not from my love’s breath? The purple pride",
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    "text": "Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells",
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    "text": "In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed.",
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    "text": "The lily I condemned for thy hand,",
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    "text": "And buds of marjoram had stol’n thy hair:",
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    "text": "The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,",
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    "text": "One blushing shame, another white despair;",
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    "text": "A third, nor red nor white, had stol’n of both",
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    "text": "And to his robbery had annex’d thy breath;",
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    "text": "But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth",
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    "text": "A vengeful canker eat him up to death.",
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    "text": "More flowers I noted, yet I none could see",
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    "text": "But sweet or colour it had stol’n from thee.",
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