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 "title": "The Apparition",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "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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    "text": "When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead,",
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   {
    "text": "And that thou think’st thee free",
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   {
    "text": "From all solicitation from me,",
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   {
    "text": "Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,",
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   {
    "text": "And thee, feign’d vestal, in worse arms shall see:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then thy sick taper will begin to wink,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And he, whose thou art then, being tired before,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will, if thou stir, or pinch to wake him, think",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou call’st for more,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, in false sleep, will from thee shrink:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And then, poor aspen wretch, neglected thou",
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   {
    "text": "Bathed in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lie",
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   {
    "text": "A verier ghost than I.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What I will say, I will not tell thee now,",
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   {
    "text": "Lest that preserve thee; and since my love is spent,",
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   {
    "text": "I’d rather thou shouldst painfully repent,",
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   {
    "text": "Than by my threatenings rest still innocent.",
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