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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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      "text": "Yet saw he something in the lives\n\nOf those who'd ceased to live\n\nThat rounded them with majesty\n\nWhich living failed to give.",
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      "text": "You may prate of your prowess in lusty times,\n\nBut as years gnaw inward you blink your bays,\n\nAnd see too well your crimes!",
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