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 "id": "david-park-barnitz/envoi",
 "title": "Envoi",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "At the End of the Century",
 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 56,
 "container": "Part II",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "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": "Now I am come to the nadir at last, to the absolute sorrow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now all the stars are gone out of my sky;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Night everlasting is mine without hope or desire of the morrow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All my life’s hopes are gone tombwards to die.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All my life’s glories lie perisht around me; and lo with great laughing",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Laugh I out loud, and I care not at all;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here with mine Anguish, my Sorrow, my Madness, my Grief, I sit quaffing",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wine, in high state in my echoing hall.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This is the last night I drink with you, maniac wassailers dreary!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lift up your goblets and drink ere I go!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, I am easily bor’d, I am easily tired and made weary;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now at the last I am weary of Woe.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, I that walk in the flower crown’d season of youthfulness golden,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Think ye that all things my gladness can slay?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sorrow is fitting for dotards and them that are loathsome and olden;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am as one that goes ever away.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, I laugh out at Grief, lo, I laugh in unending rejoicing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I that have nightshade entwin’d in my hair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Heart of me, what dost thou here in the wearisome darkness, revoicing",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yesterday’s stale and forgotten despair?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now it is midnight; but soon shall the wakening glory of morning",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shine in the East, when the darkness is gone;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now in my spirit that sat for a time in the darkness of mourning",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Waketh in gladness the mystical dawn.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "New spring laugheth without⁠—to thy heart it is calling! and o’er thee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soon shall the banners of dawn be unfurl’d;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wait thou no longer, O heart, O heart that art strong, for before thee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lieth the pomp of the great high world!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now it is midnight; my Anguish, my Mourning, my Sadness, my Sorrow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Crown you with nightshade, and once more with me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drink and make merry; farewell! I am here with you now; on the morrow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sail I over the mighty sea.",
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