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 "title": "Requiem",
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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)",
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    "text": "White-rose perfume",
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   {
    "text": "Go with thee on thy way",
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   {
    "text": "Unto thy shaded tomb;",
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    "text": "Low music fall",
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    "text": "Lightly as autumn leaves",
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    "text": "About thy solemn pall;",
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   {
    "text": "Faint incense rise",
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   {
    "text": "From many a censer swung",
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   {
    "text": "Above thy closed eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "And the sounds of them that pray",
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   {
    "text": "Make thy low bier an holy thing to be,",
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   {
    "text": "That all the beauty underneath the sun",
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   {
    "text": "Carries unto the clay.",
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    "text": "Odour of musk and roses",
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    "text": "Make sweet thy crimson lips",
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   {
    "text": "Whereon my soul hath gone to deep eclipse;",
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    "text": "Poppies’ and violets’ scent",
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    "text": "Be for thy burial lent",
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    "text": "And every flower that sweetest smell discloses.",
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    "text": "Upon thy breast,",
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   {
    "text": "Before which all my spirit hath bow’d down,",
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    "text": "White lilies rest;",
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    "text": "And for a crown upon thy mortal head",
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    "text": "Be poppies red.",
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    "text": "And for eternal peace",
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    "text": "Be poppies strown upon thy holy eyes,",
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    "text": "Till also these shall cease",
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    "text": "Turning to that which man is when he dies.",
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    "text": "And poppies on thine unassuaged mouth",
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   {
    "text": "Be strown, until death shall be done with thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Until the white worms shall be one with thee.",
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