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 "title": "Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness",
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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": "Divine Poems",
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  "year": 1635,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1635)",
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   {
    "text": "Since I am coming to that Holy room,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where, with Thy choir of saints forevermore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I shall be made Thy music; as I come",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I tune the instrument here at the door,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what I must do then, think here before;",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Whilst my physicians by their love are grown",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Flat on this bed, that by them may be shown",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That this is my southwest discovery,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Per fretum febris, by these straits to die;",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I joy, that in these straits I see my west;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For, though those currents yield return to none,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What shall my west hurt me? As west and east",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In all flat maps⁠—and I am one⁠—are one,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So death doth touch the resurrection.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Is the Pacific sea my home? Or are",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The eastern riches? Is Jerusalem?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Anyan, and Magellan, and Gibraltar?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All straits, and none but straits, are ways to them",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whether where Japhet dwelt, or Cham, or Shem.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "We think that Paradise and Calvary,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Christ’s cross and Adam’s tree, stood in one place;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Look, Lord, and find both Adams met in me;",
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   {
    "text": "As the first Adam’s sweat surrounds my face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May the last Adam’s blood my soul embrace.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "So, in His purple wrapp’d, receive me, Lord;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By these His thorns, give me His other crown;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And as to others’ souls I preach’d Thy word,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be this my text, my sermon to mine own,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Therefore that He may raise, the Lord throws down.”",
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