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Listen to a Sonnet - William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 71
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No longer mourn for me when I am dead |
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Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell |
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Give warning to the world that I am fled |
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From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: |
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Nay, if you read this line, remember not |
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The hand that writ it; for I love you so |
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That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot |
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If thinking on me then should make you woe. |
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O, if, I say, you look upon this verse |
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When I perhaps compounded am with clay, |
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Do not so much as my poor name rehearse. |
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But let your love even with my life decay, |
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Lest the wise world should look into your moan |
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And mock you with me after I am gone |
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