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Upon my dearest's pretty eyne
I make the fairest canzoni;
Upon my dearest's mouth so fine
I make the best terza rima;
Upon my dearest's cheek divine
I make the noblest stanze.
And I'd pen her a sonnet, and not a bad one,
On her little heart—if she only had one.
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Heinrich Heine
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