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14 Cards in this Set
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Sonnet 32 line 1
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If thou survive my well-contented day,
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Sonnet 32 line 2
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When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover
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Sonnet 32 line 3
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And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
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Sonnet 32 line 4
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These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
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Sonnet 32 line 5
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Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,
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Sonnet 32 line 6
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And though they be outstripped by every pen,
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Sonnet 32 line 7
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Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
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Sonnet 32 line 8
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Exceeded by the height of happier men.
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Sonnet 32 line 9
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O! then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
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Sonnet 32 line 10
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'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,
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Sonnet 32 line 11
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A dearer birth than this his love had brought,
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Sonnet 32 line 12
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To march in ranks of better equipage:
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Sonnet 32 line 13
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But since he died and poets better prove,
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Sonnet 32 line 14
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Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love'.
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