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 "title": "Parfait Amour",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 3,
 "container": "Part I",
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 "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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   "https://archive.org/details/bookofjade00gautiala",
   "https://archive.org/details/sim_overland-monthly-and-out-west-magazine_1901-01_37_1"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "It is not that thy face is fair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As dying sunsets are,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor that thy lovely eyelids wear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The splendour of a star;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis the deep sadness of thine eyes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hath my heart captive led,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that within thy soul I prize",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The calmness of the dead.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "O holy love, O fair white face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O sweet lost soul of thine!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy bosom is an altar-place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy kisses holy wine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet incense offer’d for my bliss",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is thy corrupted breath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on thy stained lips I kiss",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The holy lips of Death!",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Wherefore because thy heart is all",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fill’d full of mournfulness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thy gold head as with a pall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hung o’er with sinfulness;",
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   {
    "text": "Because thy soul is utterly",
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   {
    "text": "Sinful unto the core⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Therefore my heart is bound to thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dear love, forevermore!",
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