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 "title": "A Hymn to God the Father",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
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 "container": "Divine Poems",
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  "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": "Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun,",
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   {
    "text": "Which was my sin, though it were done before?",
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    "text": "Wilt Thou forgive that sin, through which I run,",
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   {
    "text": "And do run still, though still I do deplore?",
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   {
    "text": "When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For I have more.",
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   {
    "text": "Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won",
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   {
    "text": "Others to sin, and made my sin their door?",
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   {
    "text": "Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun",
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   {
    "text": "A year or two, but wallowed in a score?",
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   {
    "text": "When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done,",
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   {
    "text": "For I have more.",
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    "text": "I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun",
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   {
    "text": "My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;",
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   {
    "text": "But swear by Thyself, that at my death Thy Son",
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    "text": "Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;",
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   {
    "text": "And, having done that, Thou hast done;",
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    "text": "I fear no more.",
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