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 "title": "A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going Into Germany",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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   {
    "text": "In what torn ship so ever I embark,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That ship shall be my emblem of Thy ark;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What sea soever swallow me, that flood",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall be to me an emblem of Thy blood;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though Thou with clouds of anger do disguise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy face, yet through that mask I know those eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which, though they turn away sometimes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They never will despise.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I sacrifice this island unto Thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all whom I love there, and who love me;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When I have put our seas ’twixt them and me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Put thou Thy seas betwixt my sins and Thee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As the tree’s sap doth seek the root below",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In winter, in my winter now I go,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where none but Thee, the eternal root",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of true love, I may know.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Nor Thou nor Thy religion dost control",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The amorousness of an harmonious soul;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But Thou wouldst have that love Thyself; as Thou",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou lovest not, till from loving more Thou free",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My soul; Who ever gives, takes liberty;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oh, if Thou carest not whom I love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alas! Thou lovest not me.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Seal then this bill of my divorce to all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On whom those fainter beams of love did fall;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Marry those loves, which in youth scatter’d be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On fame, wit, hopes⁠—false mistresses⁠—to Thee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Churches are best for prayer, that have least light;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To see God only, I go out of sight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And to escape stormy days, I choose",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An everlasting night.",
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