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Sleep , my sweet girl! and all the sleep
You take away from others, keep:
A night, no distant one, will come
When those you took their slumbers from,
Generous, ungenerous, will confess
Their joy that you have slumber'd less,
And envy more than they condemn
The rival who avenges them.
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