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1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 2 I summon up remembrance of things past, 3 I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, 4 And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. 5 Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, 6 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, 7 And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, 8 And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight. 9 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, 10 And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er 11 The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, 12 Which I new pay as if not paid before. 13 But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, 14 All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.
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