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Sonnet 102

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      My love | is strength|ened though | more weak | in seem|ing,
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      I love | not less,| though less | the show | appear;
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      That love | is merch|andised,| whose^rich | esteem|ing,
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      The own|er's tongue | doth pub|lish eve|ry where.
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      Our love | was new,| and then | but in | the spring,
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      When I | was wont | to greet | it with | my lays;
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      As Phi|lomel | in sum|mer's front | doth^sing,
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      And stops | his pipe | in growth | of rip|er days:
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      Not that the | summer | is less pleas|ant now
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      Than when | her mourn|ful hymns | did hush | the night,
                   ,   ,      ,        ,       ,
      But that / wild mus|ic burd|ens eve|ry bough
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      And sweets grown com|mon lose | their dear | delight.
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      Therefore | like^her,| I some|time hold | my tongue:
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      Because | I would | not dull | you with | my song.
 
 
*Lines 1 and 3 are hexameter

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