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 "title": "Sepulchral Life",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Lo, all the world as some vast corpse long dead,",
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   {
    "text": "Fadeth and perisheth and doth decay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even as a corpse, in whose unhonor’d clay",
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   {
    "text": "The worms have long the inmost secrets read;",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Even as a corpse, upon whose lowly head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sun beats, and the holy rain doth play;",
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   {
    "text": "Even as a corpse, whereof the people say,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "—We would that these dead bones were buried.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Even so: and in the earth’s vast sepulchre",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our fainting souls their doubtful footsteps bear,",
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   {
    "text": "Dreaming of that which no dead men may see;",
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   {
    "text": "And in our passage to the second death,",
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   {
    "text": "We whisper strange names with our pesty breath,",
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   {
    "text": "Of Love, and Honour, and great Victory.",
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