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If my dear love | were but | the child | of
state,
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It might | for For|tune's bast|ard be |
unfath|ered,
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As sub|ject to / Time's love | or to / Time's
hate,
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Weeds among weeds,| or flowers | with flow|ers
gath|ered.
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No^it | was build|ed far | from acc|ident;
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It suf|fers not | in smil|ing pomp,| nor falls
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Under | the blow | of thral|led dis|content,
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Whereto | the invi|ting time | our fash|ion
calls:
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It fears | not pol|icy | that her|etic,
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Which works | on leas|es of / short-num|bered hours,
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But all | alone stands huge|ly pol|itic,
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That it | nor grows | with heat,| nor drowns |
with showers.
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To this | I wit|ness call | the fools | of time,
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Which die | for good|ness, who | have lived | for
crime.
*lines 2 and 4 are hexameter