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In the / old age | black was | not count|ed fair,
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Or if | it were | it bore | not beaut|y's name;
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But now | is black | beauty's | succes|sive heir,
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And beaut|y sland|ered with | a bast|ard shame,
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For since | each^hand | hath put | on Na|ture's
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Fairing the | foul with | Art's false bor|rowed
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Sweet* beaut|y hath | no name | no ho|ly bower,
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But is | profaned,| if not | lives^in | disgrace.
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Therefore | my mist|ress' eyes | are rav|en
black,
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Her eyes | so* suit|ed, and | they mour|ners seem
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At such | who not | born* fair | no beaut|y lack,
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Slandering | creat|ion with | a false | esteem:
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Yet so | they mourn | becom|ing of | their woe,
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That eve|ry tongue | says beaut|y should | look^so.