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 "title": "A Fever",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death",
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 "container": "Songs and Sonnets",
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  "year": 1633,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "O! Do not die, for I shall hate",
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   {
    "text": "All women so, when thou art gone,",
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   {
    "text": "That thee I shall not celebrate,",
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   {
    "text": "When I remember thou wast one.",
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   {
    "text": "But yet thou canst not die, I know;",
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   {
    "text": "To leave this world behind, is death;",
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   {
    "text": "But when thou from this world wilt go,",
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    "text": "The whole world vapours with thy breath.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, go’st,",
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   {
    "text": "It stay, ’tis but thy carcase then;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The fairest woman, but thy ghost,",
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   {
    "text": "But corrupt worms, the worthiest men.",
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   {
    "text": "O wrangling schools, that search what fire",
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   {
    "text": "Shall burn this world, had none the wit",
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   {
    "text": "Unto this knowledge to aspire,",
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   {
    "text": "That this her fever might be it?",
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   {
    "text": "And yet she cannot waste by this,",
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    "text": "Nor long bear this torturing wrong,",
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   {
    "text": "For more corruption needful is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To fuel such a fever long.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "These burning fits but meteors be,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose matter in thee is soon spent;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy beauty, and all parts, which are thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Are unchangeable firmament.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Yet ’twas of my mind, seizing thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though it in thee cannot persèver;",
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   {
    "text": "For I had rather owner be",
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   {
    "text": "Of thee one hour, than all else ever.",
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