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 "title": "Truth",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 42,
 "container": "Part II",
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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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   {
    "text": "It is not that I have not sought thy face",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ceaselessly through the world’s eternal lie,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More than all things and throughout every place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which having seen I were content to die.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "But I have sought thee and I have not found;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherefore my soul is banish’d from delight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sitteth joyless as a madman bound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seeing vain visions in the loathed night.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I know not even that I do not know,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But all things waver before me to and fro;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As one half head that would be dead I lie.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And thou, Death, if thy face be really fair,",
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   {
    "text": "I know not, or but renewal of vanity;",
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   {
    "text": "Wherefore mine eyes have seen the last despair.",
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