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 "title": "Sonnet of Burial",
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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": 34,
 "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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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Now that the earth thy buried corpse doth hold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now that thy soul that hath so much desired,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is gone down to the places of the tired,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far from the dawning and the star-light cold;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thine eyes shall not again the sun behold;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now shall thy body that all men hath fired",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have ceasing, and thy grave shall be admired,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That doth the fairest thing o’ the earth enfold.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Now that thine ashes are all buried,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thou art gone to slumber with the blessed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy buried body shall be no more distressed;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Being now number’d with the placid dead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thine eyes forever more have ceas’d from weeping,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For evermore thy spirit shall have sleeping.",
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