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  • Sonnet 1:

  • From fairest creatures we desire increase,

  • That thereby beauty's rose might never die,

  • But as the riper should by time decease,

  • His tender heir might bear his memory;

  • But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

  • Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,

  • Making a famine where abundance lies,

  • Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

  • Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,

  • And only herald to the gaudy spring,

  • Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

  • Pity the world or else this glutton be,

  • To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

  • Tough talk.

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