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Those lines | that I | before | have writ | do
lie,
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Eene those | that said | I could | not love | you
dear|er:
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Yet then | my judg|ment knew | no reas|on why
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My most full flame | should aft|erwards*/ burn
clear|er.
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But reck|oning Time,| whose mil|lioned ac|cidents
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Creep in 'twixt | vows, and | change
de|crees of | kings,
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Tan* sac|red beaut|y, blunt | the sharpest
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Divert | strong minds / to the | course of |
alter|ing things;
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Alas | why fear|ing of / Time's tyr|anny,
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Might^I | not then | say* now | I love | you best,
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When I | was cert|ain ore | incert|ainty,
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Crowning | the pres|ent, doubt|ing of | the rest:
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Love is | a babe,| then might | I not | say* so
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To give full growth | to that | which still |
doth^grow.
*Lines 2, 4, 6, and 8 are hexameter