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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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   {
    "text": "Thy splendour-lighted face before mine eyes",
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   {
    "text": "Shines like a flaming sunset evermore;",
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   {
    "text": "Thee only I behold on the earth’s floor,",
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    "text": "Thee only I behold within the skies;",
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    "text": "Thy coming on is like a conqueror,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before thy footsteps the world’s glory dies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Within mine ears thy voice doth ever rise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like a loud ocean beating on the shore.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Thou art made kindred with eternity,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Daughter of glory, daughter of consolations;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy face is set above the constellations;",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Of Death! O love! be I made one with thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That on thy holy lips and in thy love",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The world may perish and the light thereof!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Lo, now my life is gone unto eclipse",
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   {
    "text": "Upon thy perilous bosom; lo, I die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faint with the utter whole of exstasy,",
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   {
    "text": "With unassuaged lips against thy lips,",
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  ],
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    "text": "That can give no more joy; lo, at the place",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of utter joy, lo, at joy’s far-off throne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which none shall reach, with eyes now weary grown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I lie slain at its utmost golden base.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Yea, we have call’d the white stars to behold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our pale and fainting faces sick with joy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O regal lips that shall death’s sting destroy,",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I have suck’d bare life’s cup upon thy breath!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Kiss me to death! Lo, now our lips are cold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wilt thou not bring new joy, O Death, O Death?",
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