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      "text": "If but some vengeful god would call to me\n\nFrom up the sky, and laugh: \"Thou suffering thing,\n\nKnow that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,\n\nThat thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!\"",
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      "text": "I look into my glass,\n\nAnd viewing wasting skin,\n\nAnd say, ‘Would God it came to pass\n\nMy heart had shrunk as thin!’For then, I, undistrest\n\nBy hearts grown cold to me,\n\nCould lonely wait my endless rest\n\nWith equanimity.But Time, to make me grieve,\n\nPart steals, lets part abide;\n\nAnd shakes this fragile frame at eve\n\nWith throbbings of noontide.",
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