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Thy gift,| thy tab|les, are | within | my brain
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Full char/actered | with last|ing mem|ory,
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Which^shall | above | that id|le rank | remain,
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Beyond all date,| even to | etern|ity:
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Or^at | the least,| so long | as brain | and heart
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Have fac|ulty | by na|ture to | subsist;
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Till each | to razed | obliv|ion yield | his part
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Of thee,| thy rec|ord nev|er can | be missed.
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That poor | reten|tion could | not so |
much^hold,
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Nor need | I tal|lies thy / dear love | to score;
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Therefore | to give | them from | me was | I
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To trust those tab|les that | receive | thee
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To keep | an ad|junct^to | remem|ber thee
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Were to | import | forget|fulness | in me.