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Sonnet 81

         ,           ,          ,    ,         ,
      Or I | shall live | your ep|itaph | to make,
          ,         ,         ,        ,           x
      Or you | survive | when I | in earth | am rotten,
             ,           ,   2    ,      ,        __
      From hence | your mem|ory death | cannot | take,
           ,         ,          ,          ,         x
      Although | in me | each part | will be | forgotten.
             ,           ,        ,        ,            ,
      Your name | from hence | immort|al life | shall have,
             ,          ,        ,          ,           ,
      Though I |(once^gone)| to all | the world | must die,
            ,           ,         ,       ,        ,
      The earth | can yield | me but | a com|mon grave,
            ,        ,      ,           ,           ,
      When you | entomb|ed in | men's^eyes | shall lie,
            ,     ,           ,       ,        ,
      Your mon|ument | shall be | my gent|le verse,
              ,         ,       ,       ,           ,
      Which^eyes | not yet | creat|ed shall | ore^read,
             ,          ,         ,       ,          ,
      And tongues | to be,| your be|ing shall | rehearse,
            ,          ,         ,          ,           ,
      When all | the breath|ers of | this world | are dead,
            ,             ,          ,        ,        ,
      You still | shall live |(such^vir|tue hath | my pen)
               ,       T      T      Tx      2       ,         ,
      Where breath | most breathes, even | in the mouths | of men.

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