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 "id": "william-shakespeare/xxxix",
 "title": "XXXIX",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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   {
    "text": "O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,",
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   {
    "text": "When thou art all the better part of me?",
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   {
    "text": "What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what is’t but mine own when I praise thee?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even for this let us divided live,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And our dear love lose name of single one,",
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   {
    "text": "That by this separation I may give",
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   {
    "text": "That due to thee which thou deservest alone.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To entertain the time with thoughts of love,",
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   {
    "text": "Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,",
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   {
    "text": "And that thou teachest how to make one twain,",
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    "text": "By praising him here who doth hence remain!",
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