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Sonnet 86

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      Was it the | proud full sail | of his / great verse,
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      Bound for the | prize of | all too prec|ious you,
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      That did | my ripe | thoughts in | my brain | inhearse,
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      Making | their tomb | the womb | wherein | they grew?
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      Was it | his spirit,| by spir|its taught | to write
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      Above | a mort|al pitch,| that struck | me dead?
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      No* neith|er he, | nor* his | compeers | by night
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      Giving | him aid,| my verse | aston|ished.
       ,             ,     ,     ,        ,
      He nor | that af|fable | famil|iar ghost
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      Which^night|ly gulls | him with | intel|ligence,
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      As vic|tors of | my sil|ence can|not boast;
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      I was | not^sick | of an|y fear | from thence:
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      But when | your count|enance | filled^up | his line,
              ,        ,         ,        ,        ,
      Then lacked | I mat|ter; that | enfeeb|led mine.

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