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 "id": "william-shakespeare/xxvi",
 "title": "XXVI",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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   {
    "text": "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage",
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   {
    "text": "Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To thee I send this written embassage,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To witness duty, not to show my wit:",
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   {
    "text": "Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,",
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   {
    "text": "But that I hope some good conceit of thine",
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   {
    "text": "In thy soul’s thought, all naked, will bestow it;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till whatsoever star that guides my moving",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Points on me graciously with fair aspect",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And puts apparel on my tatter’d loving,",
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   {
    "text": "To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;",
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   {
    "text": "Till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me.",
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