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 "id": "john-donne/a-valediction-of-weeping",
 "title": "A Valediction of Weeping",
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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)",
  "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": "Let me pour forth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And by this mintage they are something worth.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For thus they be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pregnant of thee;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fruits of much grief they are, emblems of more;",
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   {
    "text": "When a tear falls, that thou fall’st which it bore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "On a round ball",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A workman, that hath copies by, can lay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An Europe, Afric, and an Asia,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And quickly make that, which was nothing, all.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So doth each tear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which thee doth wear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A globe, yea world, by that impression grow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till thy tears mix’d with mine do overflow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolvèd so.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O! more than moon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To teach the sea, what it may do too soon;",
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   {
    "text": "Let not the wind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Example find",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To do me more harm than it purposeth:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Since thou and I sigh one another’s breath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whoe’er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other’s death.",
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