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1 My glass shall not persuade me I am old, 2 So long as youth and thou are of one date; 3 But when in thee time's furrows I behold, 4 Then look I death my days should expiate. 5 For all that beauty that doth cover thee 6 Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, 7 Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me: 8 How can I then be elder than thou art? 9 O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary 10 As I, not for myself, but for thee will, 11 Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary 12 As tender nurse her babe from faring ill. 13 Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain; 14 Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.
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