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 "title": "XLII",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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    "text": "That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,",
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   {
    "text": "And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;",
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   {
    "text": "That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief,",
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   {
    "text": "A loss in love that touches me more nearly.",
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   {
    "text": "Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye:",
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   {
    "text": "Thou dost love her, because thou know’st I love her;",
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    "text": "And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,",
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    "text": "Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.",
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   {
    "text": "If I lose thee, my loss is my love’s gain,",
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   {
    "text": "And losing her, my friend hath found that loss;",
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   {
    "text": "Both find each other, and I lose both twain,",
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   {
    "text": "And both for my sake lay on me this cross:",
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   {
    "text": "But here’s the joy; my friend and I are one;",
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    "text": "Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone.",
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