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 "title": "The Anniversary",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "All kings, and all their favourites,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All glory of honours, beauties, wits,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is elder by a year now than it was",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When thou and I first one another saw.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All other things to their destruction draw,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Only our love hath no decay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Running it never runs from us away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Two graves must hide thine and my corse;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If one might, death were no divorce.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alas! as well as other princes, we",
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   {
    "text": "—Who prince enough in one another be⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears;",
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   {
    "text": "But souls where nothing dwells but love",
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   },
   {
    "text": "—All other thoughts being inmates⁠—then shall prove",
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   {
    "text": "This or a love increasèd there above,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves remove.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And then we shall be throughly blest;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But now no more than all the rest.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here upon earth we’re kings, and none but we",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can be such kings, nor of such subjects be.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who is so safe as we? where none can do",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Treason to us, except one of us two.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "True and false fears let us refrain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let us love nobly, and live, and add again",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Years and years unto years, till we attain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To write threescore; this is the second of our reign.",
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