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 "id": "david-park-barnitz/nocturne",
 "title": "Nocturne",
 "ordinal": null,
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 35,
 "container": "Part I",
 "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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  "sources": [
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Lo, how the moon, beloved,",
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   {
    "text": "Far in the heavens gleaming,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Over the ocean dreaming",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her pallid light doth throw;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Lo, where the endless ocean,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where softly the night wind bloweth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into the darkness floweth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thither at last I go.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Listen, how sweet the ocean",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto our spirits sigheth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lo, where our pinnace lieth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Awaiting, with sails unfurl’d;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Come thou with me, beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come thou with heart unquailing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There where no ships come sailing,",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the dreary world.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Come thou with me, beloved,",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the world and its seeming,",
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   {
    "text": "Where all things are only dreaming,",
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   {
    "text": "And shadows all we know;",
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   {
    "text": "The heart hath not found its longing",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here, nor shall find it ever;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold of my life’s endeavour",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Remaineth only woe.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Behold, my desire, my anguish,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Trouble and toil surpassing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are all but as shadows passing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shadows the fame thereof;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here, where the heart attaineth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not, what the heart desireth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where beauty too early tireth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And kisses mean not love.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here where what man hath desired,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He shall not find forever,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But ever and only ever",
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   {
    "text": "Unending vanity;",
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    "text": "Not in this world, beloved,",
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   {
    "text": "My only longing hideth,",
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   {
    "text": "But in farther lands abideth",
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   {
    "text": "And over a wider sea.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "There, when the spring shall blossom,",
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   {
    "text": "There, when the winter is vanisht,",
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   {
    "text": "My spirit that long was banisht",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall come to its home, though late;",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "There in mine olden kingdom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where nothing is transitory,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I in exceeding glory",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall hold mine ancient state.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here let us leave our anguish,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here at the hour of leaving,",
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   {
    "text": "Leave we our woe and grieving",
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   {
    "text": "Like garments long outworn;",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Leave we our mortal sorrow,",
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   {
    "text": "Our longing and our repenting,",
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   {
    "text": "The anguish and the lamenting",
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   {
    "text": "That made our hearts to mourn.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Others may weep and anguish,",
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   {
    "text": "Others may talk of laughter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And ever a little after",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sorrow is theirs the more;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But we two have done with laughter",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sadness that hath no reason,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We two in the springtime season",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Push out from the weary shore.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Past are the storms of winter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Past is the rainy weather,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Past are the snows, together",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With sadness and sorrowing;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Past are the rains, beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Past is the time of weeping,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lo, o’er the green earth sleeping,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Laugheth the world-wide Spring!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Come thou with me, beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O let us now be starting!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All things, at the hour of parting,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall be made new for thee;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Listen, how sweet the ocean",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto our spirits calleth;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Softly the starlight falleth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Over the dreaming sea.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Fadeth the land, beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That long hath our spirits tired,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before us lies that desired",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far country, strange and new;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Far off lies that dream’d-of country",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Eternally fair and blessed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Eternally undistressed,",
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   {
    "text": "Far over the ocean blue.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Knowst thou the land, beloved?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Year-long with gentle motion",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There the unending ocean",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Batheth the tropic shore;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There never storms blow loudly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There never wet rain falleth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There never loud wind calleth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor stormy waters roar.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Fairer the stars that lighten",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, than to us is given,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There in a fairer heaven",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shineth a larger moon;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Fair stand the castles golden",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, and o’er stranger flowers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There through the long long hours",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The wandering breezes swoon.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There in that land, beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is never a sound of living,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Never is heard thanksgiving",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, nor the noise of moan;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There naught is heard of sorrow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And nothing is there begotten;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, with all life forgotten,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We two shall come alone.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There, O my one beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through twilight never-closing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We two shall sit reposing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forever, thou with me;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There ’neath the stars eternal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We two shall sit, we only,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While from the heavens, lonely,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The moon sinks in the sea.",
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