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 "title": "XXI",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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   {
    "text": "So is it not with me as with that Muse",
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   {
    "text": "Stirr’d by a painted beauty to his verse,",
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   {
    "text": "Who heaven itself for ornament doth use",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And every fair with his fair doth rehearse;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Making a couplement of proud compare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With sun and moon, with earth and sea’s rich gems,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With April’s first-born flowers, and all things rare",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That heaven’s air in this huge rondure hems.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, let me, true in love, but truly write,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And then believe me, my love is as fair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As any mother’s child, though not so bright",
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   {
    "text": "As those gold candles fix’d in heaven’s air:",
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   {
    "text": "Let them say more that like of hearsay well;",
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   {
    "text": "I will not praise that purpose not to sell.",
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