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 "id": "john-donne/the-blossom",
 "title": "The Blossom",
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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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  "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": "Little think’st thou, poor flower,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom I’ve watch’d six or seven days,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little think’st thou,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That it will freeze anon, and that I shall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tomorrow find thee fallen, or not at all.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Little think’st thou, poor heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That labourest yet to nestle thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And think’st by hovering here to get a part",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In a forbidden or forbidding tree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hopest her stiffness by long siege to bow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little think’st thou,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That thou tomorrow, ere that sun doth wake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must with this sun and me a journey take.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But thou which lovest to be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Subtle to plague thyself, wilt say,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alas! if you must go, what’s that to me?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here lies my business, and here I will stay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You go to friends, whose love and means present",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Various content",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To your eyes, ears, and taste, and every part;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If then your body go, what need your heart?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Well then, stay here; but know,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When thou hast stay’d and done thy most,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A naked thinking heart, that makes no show,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is to a woman but a kind of ghost.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How shall she know my heart; or having none,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Know thee for one?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Practice may make her know some other part;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But take my word, she doth not know a heart.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Meet me at London, then,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Twenty days hence, and thou shalt see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me fresher, and more fat, by being with men,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than if I had stay’d still with her and thee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For God’s sake, if you can, be you so too;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I will give you",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There to another friend, whom we shall find",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As glad to have my body as my mind.",
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