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 "title": "Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?",
 "ordinal": "XXIX",
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 "poet": "James Joyce",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Chamber Music",
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 "container": "Chamber Music",
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 "first_published": {
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  "venue": "Chamber Music (1907)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Dear heart, why will you use me so?",
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   {
    "text": "Dear eyes that gently me upbraid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still are you beautiful⁠—but O,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How is your beauty raimented!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Through the clear mirror of your eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through the soft sigh of kiss to kiss,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Desolate winds assail with cries",
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   {
    "text": "The shadowy garden where love is.",
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   {
    "text": "And soon shall love dissolved be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When over us the wild winds blow⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But you, dear love, too dear to me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alas! why will you use me so?",
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