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Sonnet 71
No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O if (I say) you look upon this verse, When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse But let your love even with my life decay: Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone. |
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