Shakespeare Sonnet 39

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O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,

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When thou art all the better part of me?

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What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?

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And what is 't but mine own when I praise thee?

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Even for this let us divided live,

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And our dear love lose name of single one,

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That by this separation I may give

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That due to thee which thou deservest alone.

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O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove,

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Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave

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To entertain the time with thoughts of love,

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Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,

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And that thou teachest how to make one twain,

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By praising him here who doth hence remain!