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11Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
22Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
33Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
44And summer's lease hath all too short a date: And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
55But thy eternal summer shall not fade Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
66Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st. And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
77Tho’ I no longer breathe thy heav’nly scent, And every fair from fair sometime declines,
88Still thy fair memory remains eloquent. By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
99So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, But thy eternal summer shall not fade
1010So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
1111Go, go then, fair flow’r, Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
1212Go spread thy petals, When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
1313Eternal summer, eternal memory shall remain. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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