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 "title": "Sonnet",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 16,
 "container": "Part I",
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  "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": "Be not cast down my heart, and be not sad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That thou like common men must sorrow know;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not only they that live and die below,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But ev’n the gods thy supreme sorrow had;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Not unto Tammuz was this fortune given,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not to know grief; whom starry Ashtoreth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sought through the seven-gated realm of death,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far from the great moon and the stars of heaven.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Osiris also could not but to die;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He reigneth king among the perisht dead;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Christ, when his long grief was finished,",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Hid his great glory in the lowly ground.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All these had sorrow, that were great and high;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These also were august, these also crown’d.",
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