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 "title": "Annunciation",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Salvation to all that will is nigh;",
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   {
    "text": "That All, which always is all everywhere,",
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   {
    "text": "Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,",
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   {
    "text": "Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,",
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   {
    "text": "Lo! faithful Virgin, yields Himself to lie",
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   {
    "text": "In prison, in thy womb; and though He there",
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   {
    "text": "Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He’ll wear,",
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    "text": "Taken from thence, flesh, which death’s force may try.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ere by the spheres time was created thou",
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   {
    "text": "Wast in His mind, who is thy Son, and Brother;",
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   {
    "text": "Whom thou conceivest, conceived; yea, thou art now",
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   {
    "text": "Thy Maker’s maker, and thy Father’s mother.",
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   {
    "text": "Thou hast light in dark, and shutt’st in little room",
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   {
    "text": "Immensity, cloister’d in thy dear womb.",
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