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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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  "year": 1633,
  "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Go and catch a falling star,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Get with child a mandrake root,",
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   {
    "text": "Tell me where all past years are,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or who cleft the devil’s foot,",
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   {
    "text": "Teach me to hear mermaids singing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or to keep off envy’s stinging,",
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   {
    "text": "And find",
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   {
    "text": "What wind",
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   {
    "text": "Serves to advance an honest mind.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "If thou be’st born to strange sights,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Things invisible to see,",
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   {
    "text": "Ride ten thousand days and nights,",
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   {
    "text": "Till age snow white hairs on thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell me,",
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   {
    "text": "All strange wonders that befell thee,",
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   {
    "text": "And swear,",
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    "text": "Nowhere",
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   {
    "text": "Lives a woman true and fair.",
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   {
    "text": "If thou find’st one, let me know;",
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   {
    "text": "Such a pilgrimage were sweet.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet do not, I would not go,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though at next door we might meet.",
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   {
    "text": "Though she were true when you met her,",
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   {
    "text": "And last till you write your letter,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet she",
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   {
    "text": "Will be",
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   {
    "text": "False, ere I come, to two or three.",
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