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 "title": "Ascension",
 "ordinal": "VII",
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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": "Salute the last and everlasting day,",
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   {
    "text": "Joy at th’ uprising of this Sun, and Son,",
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   {
    "text": "Ye whose true tears, or tribulation",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have purely wash’d, or burnt your drossy clay.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold, the Highest, parting hence away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lightens the dark clouds, which He treads upon;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor doth He by ascending show alone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But first He, and He first enters the way.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O strong Ram, which hast batter’d heaven for me!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mild Lamb which with Thy Blood hast mark’d the path!",
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   {
    "text": "Bright Torch, which shinest, that I the way may see!",
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   {
    "text": "O, with Thy own Blood quench Thy own just wrath;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And if Thy Holy Spirit my Muse did raise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise.",
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