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Sonnet 9

       ,            ,        ,       ,        ,
      Is it | for fear | to wet | a wid|ow's eye,
             ,         ,           ,        ,        ,
      That thou | consumst | thy self | in sing|le life?
          ,         ,      ,           ,        ,
      Ah^if | thou^is|sueless | shalt^hap | to die,
            ,            ,           ,        ,         ,
      The world | will wail | thee like | a make|less wife;
            ,           ,        ,             ,     ,
      The world | will be | thy wid|ow and / still weep
             ,          ,         ,           ,        ,
      That thou | no* form | of thee | hast^left | behind,
            ,       ,       ,       ,           ,
      When eve|ry priv|ate wid|ow well | may* keep
           ,           ,         ,           ,          ,
      By child|ren's eyes,| her hus|band's shape | in mind:
        ,             ,    ,              ,            ,
      Look what | an un|thrift in | the world | doth^spend
         ,               ,           ,           ,           x
      Shifts but | his place,| for still | the world | enjoys it;
            ,         ,           ,         ,         ,
      But beaut|y's waste | hath^in | the world | an end,
            ,        ,         ,     ,           x
      And kept | unused | the us|er so | destroys it:
           ,           ,        ,         ,       ,
      No love | toward^oth|ers in | that bos|om sits
            ,        ,          ,     2     ,         ,
      That on | himself | such murd|erous shame | commits.

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