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Sonnet 68

            ,          ,         ,         ,        ,
      Thus^is | his cheek | the map | of days | outworn,
             ,       ,           ,          x          ,
      When beaut|y lived | and died | as flowers | do now,
          ,           ,         ,          ,           ,
      Before | these bast|ard signs | of fair | were born,
           ,        ,      ,      ,        ,
      Or durst | inhab|it on | a liv|ing brow;
          ,         ,        ,       ,         ,
      Before | the gold|en tres|ses of | the dead,
            ,         ,      ,            ,       ,
      The right | of sep|ulchres,| were shorn | away,
           ,       ,        ,        ,        ,
      To live | a sec|ond life | on sec|ond head;
             ,         ,       ,             ,      ,
      Ere* beaut|y's dead | fleece made* |anoth|er gay:
          ,           ,     ,          ,           ,
      In him | those^ho|ly an|tique^hours | are seen,
           ,         ,     ,        ,          ,
      Without | all^orn|ament,| itself | and true,
       ,        ,  ,              ,         ,
      Making | no sum/mer of | anoth|er's green,
       ,         T  T   .   T           ,      ,
      Robbing | no old to dress | his beaut|y new;
           ,        ,       ,          ,        ,
      And him | as for | a map | doth^Na|ture store,
       .   T    T    T           ,      ,         ,
      To show false Art | what beaut|y was | of yore.

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