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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
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    "text": "Thou shalt rejoice for woe:",
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   {
    "text": "The pallid goblet old,",
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   {
    "text": "That holds thy life’s dull wine,",
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    "text": "Is made thereby divine;",
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    "text": "Stain’d with a purpler glow,",
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    "text": "And wrought in stranger gold.",
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    "text": "From the suck’d lees of pain,",
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    "text": "We have won joy again:",
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    "text": "Death shall thee not distress:",
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    "text": "That sleepy bitterness",
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    "text": "To thy kist lips shall be",
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    "text": "The supreme exstasy.",
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    "text": "Put ashes on your golden body bare,",
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   {
    "text": "Puissant as musk, bitter-sweet as to die,",
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    "text": "Ashes upon your arms that grow not old,",
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   {
    "text": "And on your unassuaged lips of gold:",
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   {
    "text": "So we will wanton in love’s sepulchre,",
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    "text": "And mock the face of Death with blasphemy.",
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    "text": "I love you more than Death: your mournful head,",
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   {
    "text": "Your shrouding hair, and your unfathom’d eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "And your white body beautiful, alas,",
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   {
    "text": "Priestess and victim in love’s holy mass⁠ ⁠…",
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   {
    "text": "Your flesh that loves, and loving ever dies⁠ ⁠…",
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   {
    "text": "I could not love you more if you were dead.",
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   {
    "text": "Death is death; the little host that squirms,",
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   {
    "text": "The smell, the dark, the coffin clos’d, and I",
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   {
    "text": "So soft, so soft; no movement, and no breath;",
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   {
    "text": "No ears, no nose, no eyeballs; Death is Death;",
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   {
    "text": "The sepulchre, no sight, no sound, no cry,",
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   {
    "text": "And always; Death is Death; the worms! the worms",
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    "text": "Not for your evil is my spirit sad⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I mourn because you are not really bad;",
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   {
    "text": "Because your beauty’s perfect cruelty",
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   {
    "text": "Is ever marr’d with pity and distress,",
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   {
    "text": "And you still show within your wickedness",
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   {
    "text": "The poor stale weakness of humanity.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "I am as one that thirsteth for all things,",
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   {
    "text": "As one that holdeth to his lips the cup,",
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   {
    "text": "With lower’d eyes searching the wine’s dull flame.",
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   {
    "text": "No thing may I refuse among all things,",
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   {
    "text": "Till, having drain’d unto its dregs the cup,",
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   {
    "text": "I may return into the astral flame.",
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   {
    "text": "Heart, we have wholly drain’d the cup of sadness,",
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   {
    "text": "And found in sadness no reality;",
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   {
    "text": "Now from the night of sadness let us go.",
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   {
    "text": "Henceforward let us drain the cup of gladness,",
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   {
    "text": "And find in gladness no reality;",
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   {
    "text": "From sadness then and gladness let us go.",
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