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 "id": "david-park-barnitz/sonnet",
 "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": 15,
 "container": "Part I",
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 "first_published": {
  "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": "When I contemplate how my state is low,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And how my pride that had the earth for throne",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In this dark city sitteth all alone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My heart is fain for death to end its woe;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Then when I think how all the great below",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had only sorrow and grief through all their days,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I, that with these shall some time stand in place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My fortune like their bitter fortune know.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Among whom also holy Baudelaire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though unto him the loftiest lot was given",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To hear the blessed muses sing in heaven,",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Past his few days in anguish and despair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet did he not bow down his mournful head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until Peace found him in his glory dead.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "So thou in this low lair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Although in sorrow and grief thou dost remain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though of all things whereof thy soul was fain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Remaineth only pain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet be not thou, O soul, disconsolate:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forget not thou thy far-exalted state.",
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   }
  ]
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