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O thou | my love|ly boy | who in | thy power
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Dost^hold | Time's fickle glass,| his sickle,|
hour:
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Who hast | by wan|ing grown,| and there|in
showst
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Thy lov|ers with|ering, as thy // sweet self
growst.
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If Nat|ure (sove|reign mist|ress ov|er wrack)
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As thou | go'st^on|wards still | will pluck |
thee back,
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She keeps | thee to | this pur|pose, that | her
skill
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May time | disgrace,| and wretch|ed min|utes
kill.
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Yet fear | her O | thou min|ion of | her
pleas|ure,
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She may | detain,| but not | still keep | her
treas|ure.
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Her aud|it (though | delayed)| answered | must
be,
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And her | quie|tus is | to rend|er thee.
*Lines 9 and 10 are hexameter