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Yet look on me - take not thine eyes away,     Which feed upon the love within mine own,     Which is indeed but the reflected ray     Of thine own beauty from my spirit thrown.     Yet speak to me - thy voice is as the tone     Of my heart's echo, and I think I hear     That thou yet lovest me; yet thou alone     Like one before a mirror, without care     Of aught but thine own features, imaged there;     And yet I wear out life in watching thee;     A toil so sweet at times, and thou indeed     Art kind when I am sick, and pity me...

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