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 "title": "La Corona",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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   {
    "text": "Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,",
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   {
    "text": "Weaved in my lone devout melancholy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou which of good hast, yea, art treasury,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All changing unchanged Ancient of days.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But do not with a vile crown of frail bays",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Reward my Muse’s white sincerity;",
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   {
    "text": "But what Thy thorny crown gain’d, that give me,",
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   {
    "text": "A crown of glory, which doth flower always.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The ends crown our works, but Thou crown’st our ends,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For at our ends begins our endless rest.",
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   {
    "text": "The first last end, now zealously possess’d,",
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   {
    "text": "With a strong sober thirst my soul attends.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis time that heart and voice be lifted high;",
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   {
    "text": "Salvation to all that will is nigh.",
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