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 "title": "Nativity",
 "ordinal": "III",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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   {
    "text": "Immensity, cloister’d in thy dear womb,",
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   {
    "text": "Now leaves His well-beloved imprisonment.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There he hath made himself to his intent",
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   {
    "text": "Weak enough, now into our world to come.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But O! for thee, for Him, hath th’ inn no room?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet lay Him in this stall, and from th’ orient,",
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   {
    "text": "Stars, and wise men will travel to prevent",
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   {
    "text": "The effects of Herod’s jealous general doom.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See’st thou, my soul, with thy faith’s eye, how He",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,",
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   {
    "text": "That would have need to be pitied by thee?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,",
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   {
    "text": "With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.",
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