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 "poet": "Ambrose Bierce",
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 "book": "The Fiend’s Delight",
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  "year": 1873,
  "venue": "The Fiend’s Delight (1873)",
  "note": "Taken from The Fiend's Delight (1873), Bierce's first book. Its preface says what the volume is: the pieces in it are “taken mainly from various Californian journals”. So 1873 is the first book printing located, not the poem's first appearance, and which newspaper printed it first has not been established here.",
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    "text": "Didymus Dunkleton Doty Don John",
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    "text": "Is a parson of high degree;",
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    "text": "He holds forth of Sundays to marvelling crowds",
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    "text": "Who wonder how vice can still be",
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   {
    "text": "When smitten so stoutly by Didymus Don⁠—",
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    "text": "Disciple of Calvin is he.",
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    "text": "But sinners still laugh at his talk of the New",
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    "text": "Jerusalem⁠—ha-ha, te-he!",
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    "text": "And biting their thumbs at the doughty Don John⁠—",
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    "text": "This parson of high degree⁠—",
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    "text": "They think of the streets of a village they know,",
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    "text": "Where horses still sink to the knee,",
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    "text": "Contrasting its muck with the pavement of gold",
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    "text": "That’s laid in the other citee.",
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    "text": "They think of the sign that still swings, uneffaced",
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    "text": "By winds from the salt, salt sea,",
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    "text": "Which tells where he trafficked in tipple, of yore⁠—",
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    "text": "Don Dunkleton Johnny, D. D.",
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    "text": "Didymus Dunkleton Doty Don John",
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    "text": "Still plays on his fiddle-D. D.,",
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    "text": "His lambkins still bleat in full psalmody sweet,",
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    "text": "And the devil still pitches the key.",
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