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Sonnet 19

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      Devour|ing Time | blunt thou the li|on's paws,
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      And make | the earth | devour | her own sweet brood,
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      Pluck the keen teeth | from the / fierce tig|er's jaws,
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      And burn | the long-|lived phoen/ix in | her blood,
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      Make glad | and sor|ry seas|ons as | thou fleetst,
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      And do | whatere | thou wilt | swift-footed Time
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      To the / wide world | and all | her fad|ing sweets;
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      But I | forbid | thee* one | most^hein|ous crime,
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      O carve | not with thy | hours my | love's fair brow,
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      Nor draw | no lines | there with thine^|antique pen,
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      Him in | thy course | untaint|ed do | allow,
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      For beaut|y's pat|tern to | succeed|ing men.
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      Yet do | thy worst | old^Time | despite | thy wrong,
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      My love | shall^in | my verse | ever live young.

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