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1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4 And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8 By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; 11 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 12 When in eternal lines to time thou growest: 13 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 14 So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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