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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 27,
 "container": "Part I",
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  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "The lady awoke before the cold gray dawn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And had no joy thereof;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "—What joy is mine of all the joy of love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When love is gone?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Lo, all the air is strange unto mine eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, all the stars are dead;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Only the moon appeareth overhead",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As one that dies.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Lo, all the garden lieth desolate,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And very strange to see,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherein, the roses and the grass for me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Blossom’d of late.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "O rose-garden wherein my roses grew,",
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   {
    "text": "O odorous dim ways,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why are ye strange to me as perish’d days,",
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   {
    "text": "And cold with dew?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Through the wide window creeps the cold sweet air,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faint with sweet rose-perfume,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It stealeth o’er my body in the gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And o’er my hair.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Surely I have drunk full of love’s delight,",
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   {
    "text": "But now my lips are cold,",
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   {
    "text": "While the pale day in silence doth behold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The dying night.",
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