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 "title": "Resurgam",
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 "poet": "Ambrose Bierce",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Fiend’s Delight",
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 "container": "Poesy",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Dawns dread and red the fateful morn⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, Resurrection’s Day is born!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The striding sea no longer strides,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No longer knows the trick of tides;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The land is breathless, winds relent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All nature waits the dread event.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "From wassail rising rather late,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Awarding Jove arrives in state;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er yawning graves looks many a league,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then yawns himself from sheer fatigue.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lifting its finger to the sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A marble shaft arrests his eye⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This epitaph, in pompous pride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Engraven on its polished side:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Perfection of Creation’s plan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here resteth Universal Man,",
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   {
    "text": "Who virtues, segregated wide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Collated, classed, and codified,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Reduced to practice, taught, explained,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And strict morality maintained.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Anticipating death, his pelf",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He lavished on this monolith;",
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   {
    "text": "Because he leaves nor kin nor kith",
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   {
    "text": "He rears this tribute to himself,",
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   {
    "text": "That Virtue’s fame may never cease.",
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   {
    "text": "Hic jacet⁠—let him rest in peace!”",
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   {
    "text": "With sober eye Jove scanned the shaft,",
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   {
    "text": "Then turned away and lightly laughed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Poor Man! since I have careless been",
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   {
    "text": "In keeping books to note thy sin,",
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   {
    "text": "And thou hast left upon the earth",
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   {
    "text": "This faithful record of thy worth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy final prayer shall now be heard:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of life I’ll not renew thy lease,",
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   {
    "text": "But take thee at thy carven word,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And let thee rest in solemn peace!”",
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