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 "title": "Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie en Rouge",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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  "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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    "text": "Your soul is like a purple flower,",
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   {
    "text": "Mary, whose eyes are amethyst,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose lips are like red wine when kist,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With sweet life and sweet death for dower;",
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   {
    "text": "There are who will have none of these,",
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   {
    "text": "Who walk in peace all day upright,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the night pray on their knees⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The pleasures of the life in white.",
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   {
    "text": "All cloth’d with virtues manifold",
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    "text": "Are these⁠—their souls are like white snow;",
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   {
    "text": "Fair love, around thy heart I know",
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   {
    "text": "My heart is bound with chains of gold.",
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   {
    "text": "Sweet youths whose life is in the spring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The water is all wine they drink,",
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   {
    "text": "They sorrow not at anything⁠—",
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    "text": "The pleasures of the life in pink.",
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   {
    "text": "Your gold hair’s like an aureole,",
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   {
    "text": "Your lips are gold wine bought and sold,",
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   {
    "text": "Pure golden kisses bought for gold;",
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   {
    "text": "Each breast is like a golden bowl.",
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   {
    "text": "These things are for a scorn to those",
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   {
    "text": "That read great books both night and day,",
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   {
    "text": "That say, Joy dieth as the rose⁠—",
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    "text": "The pleasures of the life in gray.",
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    "text": "Sweet youths, white ladies, scholars sour,",
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    "text": "Rejoice, and hasten on your way;",
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   {
    "text": "Mary, whose skin is white as whey,",
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   {
    "text": "Your soul is like a purple flower.",
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