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  1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
  2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
  3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
  4. And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
  5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
  6. And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
  7. And every fair from fair sometime declines,
  8. By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
  9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
  10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
  11. Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
  12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
  13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
  14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.