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    "text": "If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,",
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    "text": "For then despite of space I would be brought,",
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    "text": "No matter then although my foot did stand",
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    "text": "Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;",
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    "text": "For nimble thought can jump both sea and land",
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    "text": "But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,",
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    "text": "To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,",
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    "text": "But that so much of earth and water wrought",
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    "text": "I must attend time’s leisure with my moan,",
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    "text": "Receiving nought by elements so slow",
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