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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the grave, O God, I call to thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Be thou not deaf unto my dolorous cry;",
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   {
    "text": "My soul is fallen down into the sty,",
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   {
    "text": "And the dead things are crawling over me;",
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   {
    "text": "O thou my God, give me the worm to flee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Out from the pit’s depths I would rise on high.",
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   {
    "text": "Again am I fallen down into the grave,",
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   {
    "text": "My soul is sunken in the place of slime,",
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   {
    "text": "I am too weak its loathed walls to climb,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou, only thou, O God, art strong to save;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, in mine eyes the worms have made their cave,",
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   {
    "text": "And squatting toads oppress me all the time.",
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   {
    "text": "Yea, from this pit I have crawl’d out before;",
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    "text": "With groans and cries and many a dolorous fall,",
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   {
    "text": "I have climbed up its impregnable wall;",
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   {
    "text": "I shall not rise now from its slimy floor;",
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   {
    "text": "O God, hear thou my lamentable call,",
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   {
    "text": "Or from the grave I come not evermore.",
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   {
    "text": "I am become a housing for the toad;",
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   {
    "text": "All things are fled wherein I took delight;",
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   {
    "text": "There is no joy here, and there is no light;",
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   {
    "text": "O God, O God, I have reap’d what I sow’d;",
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    "text": "I am become a dead thing in the night,",
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    "text": "And in my heart the worms have their abode.",
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    "text": "Lo, from my body all my might is fled,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the light is gone out of mine eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "Mine ears hear only lamentable cries,",
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   {
    "text": "And eyeless things stand round about my head;",
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   {
    "text": "I am made as a man that slowly dies;",
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   {
    "text": "I am made as a man already dead.",
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