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Sonnet 76

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      Why is | my verse | so* bar|ren of / new pride,
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      So far | from var|ia|tion or / quick change?
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      Why with | the time | do I | not glance | aside
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      To new|-found meth/ods, and to | compounds strange?
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      Why^write | I still | all^one,| ever | the same,
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      And keep | invent|ion in | a not|ed weed,
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      That eve|ry word | doth^al|most tell | my name,
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      Showing | their birth,| and where | they did | proceed?
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      O know | sweet* love | I al|ways write | of you,
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      And you | and love | are still | my arg|ument;
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      So all | my best is | dressing | old words new,
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      Spending | again | what is | alread|y spent:
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      For as | the sun | is dail|y new | and old,
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      So is my | love still tell|ing what | is told.

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