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Sonnet LXI
Is it thy will thy image should keep open
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My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
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Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
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While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
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Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
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So far from home into my deeds to pry,
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To find out shames and idle hours in me,
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The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
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O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
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It is my love that keeps mine eye awake;
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Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
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To play the watchman ever for thy sake:
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For thee watch I whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
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From me far off, with others all too near.
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