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 "id": "david-park-barnitz/pride",
 "title": "Pride",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 10,
 "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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "They come and go, they pass before my soul,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Desire and Love, weak Anguish and Distress,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shame and Despair: in phantom crowds they press,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Life’s poor processional, Time’s lowly dole.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Mournful their voices as slow bells that toll,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Voices of them that curse and do not bless;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ineffable things wrapp’d round with loathsomeness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The deeds that I have done in Fate’s control.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "They leer and moan, they shriek and threat and lower,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ignoble faces that the sky do mar;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My changeless soul from her high pride of power",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Looks down unmov’d. So the calm evening star",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the wallowing peaceless sea looks down,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Set far aloft within the heaven’s crown.",
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