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 "poet": "John Donne",
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   {
    "text": "Tamely, frail body, abstain today; today",
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   {
    "text": "My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She sees Him man, so like God made in this,",
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   {
    "text": "That of them both a circle emblem is,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose first and last concur; this doubtful day",
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   {
    "text": "Of feast or fast, Christ came, and went away;",
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   {
    "text": "She sees Him nothing, twice at once, who’s all;",
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   {
    "text": "She sees a cedar plant itself, and fall;",
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   {
    "text": "Her Maker put to making, and the head",
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   {
    "text": "Of life at once not yet alive, yet dead;",
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   {
    "text": "She sees at once the Virgin Mother stay",
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   {
    "text": "Reclused at home, public at Golgotha;",
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   {
    "text": "Sad and rejoiced she’s seen at once, and seen",
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   {
    "text": "At almost fifty, and at scarce fifteen;",
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   {
    "text": "At once a son is promised her, and gone;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gabriel gives Christ to her, He her to John;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not fully a mother, she’s in orbity;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At once receiver and the legacy.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All this, and all between, this day hath shown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Th’ abridgement of Christ’s story, which makes one⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As in plain maps, the furthest west is east⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Of th’ angels Ave, and Consummatum est.",
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   {
    "text": "How well the Church, God’s Court of Faculties,",
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   {
    "text": "Deals, in sometimes, and seldom joining these.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As by the self-fix’d Pole we never do",
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   {
    "text": "Direct our course, but the next star thereto,",
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   {
    "text": "Which shows where th’other is, and which we say",
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   {
    "text": "—Because it strays not far⁠—doth never stray,",
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   {
    "text": "So God by His Church, nearest to him, we know,",
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   {
    "text": "And stand firm, if we by her motion go.",
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   {
    "text": "His Spirit, as His fiery pillar, doth",
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   {
    "text": "Lead, and His Church, as cloud; to one end both.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This Church by letting those days join, hath shown",
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   {
    "text": "Death and conception in mankind is one;",
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   {
    "text": "Or ’twas in Him the same humility,",
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   {
    "text": "That He would be a man, and leave to be;",
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   {
    "text": "Or as creation He hath made, as God,",
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   {
    "text": "With the last judgment but one period,",
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   {
    "text": "His imitating spouse would join in one",
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   {
    "text": "Manhood’s extremes; He shall come, He is gone;",
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   {
    "text": "Or as though one blood drop, which thence did fall,",
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   {
    "text": "Accepted, would have served, He yet shed all,",
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   {
    "text": "So though the least of His pains, deeds, or words,",
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   {
    "text": "Would busy a life, she all this day affords.",
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   {
    "text": "This treasure then, in gross, my soul, uplay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in my life retail it every day.",
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