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Sonnet 5

             ,        ,          ,        ,          ,
      Those^hou|rs, that | with gent|le work | did frame
            ,       ,           ,      ,           ,
      The love|ly gaze | where eve|ry eye | doth^dwell,
             ,         ,        ,        ,      ,
      Will play | the tyr|ants to | the ve|ry same
            ,        ,            ,       ,       ,
      And that | unfair | which^fair|ly doth | excel.
           ,      ,         ,           ,       ,
      For nev|er-rest|ing time | leads^sum|mer on
          ,    2   ,       ,          ,           ,
      To hid|eous wint|er and | confounds | him there,
       T     T      .    T           x       T     T     T
      Sap checked with frost | and lusty*| leaves quite gone,  ??
       ,              ,          ,         ,      ,
      Beauty | ore-snowed | and bare|ness eve|rywhere.
             ,         ,          ,     ,        ,
      Then^were | not^sum|mer's dist|illa|tion left
         ,        ,    2     ,         ,          ,
      A liq|uid pris|oner, pent | in walls | of glass,
        ,            ,           ,       ,        ,
      Beauty's | effect | with beaut|y were | bereft,
           ,         ,       ,          ,        ,
      Nor it, | nor no | remem|brance what | it was.
             x           ,               ,          ,       ,
      But flowers | distilled | though they | with wint|er meet
         ,                 ,            ,           ,             ,
      'Lease but | their show; | their sub|stance still | lives^sweet.

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