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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought1
I summon up remembrance of things past,2
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,3
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:4
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,5
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,6
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,7
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:8
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,9
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er10
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,11
Which I new pay as if not paid before.12
    But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,13
    All losses are restored and sorrows end.14