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 "id": "william-shakespeare/xxxii",
 "title": "XXXII",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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   {
    "text": "If thou survive my well-contented day,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And shalt by fortune once more re-survey",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Compare them with the bettering of the time,",
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   {
    "text": "And though they be outstripp’d by every pen,",
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   {
    "text": "Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,",
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   {
    "text": "Exceeded by the height of happier men.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Had my friend’s Muse grown with this growing age,",
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   {
    "text": "A dearer birth than this his love had brought,",
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   {
    "text": "To march in ranks of better equipage:",
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   {
    "text": "But since he died and poets better prove,",
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    "text": "Theirs for their style I’ll read, his for his love.”",
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