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 "title": "Community",
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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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  "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": "Good we must love, and must hate ill,",
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   {
    "text": "For ill is ill, and good good still;",
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   {
    "text": "But there are things indifferent,",
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   {
    "text": "Which we may neither hate, nor love,",
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   {
    "text": "But one, and then another prove,",
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   {
    "text": "As we shall find our fancy bent.",
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   {
    "text": "If then at first wise Nature had",
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    "text": "Made women either good or bad,",
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    "text": "Then some we might hate, and some choose;",
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   {
    "text": "But since she did them so create,",
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   {
    "text": "That we may neither love, nor hate,",
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   {
    "text": "Only this rests, all all may use.",
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   {
    "text": "If they were good, it would be seen;",
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    "text": "Good is as visible as green,",
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   {
    "text": "And to all eyes itself betrays.",
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   {
    "text": "If they were bad, they could not last;",
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   {
    "text": "Bad doth itself and others waste;",
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    "text": "So they deserve nor blame, nor praise.",
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    "text": "But they are ours as fruits are ours;",
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   {
    "text": "He that but tastes, he that devours,",
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   {
    "text": "And he that leaves all, doth as well;",
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   {
    "text": "Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat;",
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   {
    "text": "And when he hath the kernel eat,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who doth not fling away the shell?",
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