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 "id": "john-donne/the-dissolution",
 "title": "The Dissolution",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death",
 "book_slug": "poems-1633",
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 "sequence": null,
 "container": "Songs and Sonnets",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1633,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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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": "She’s dead; and all which die",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To their first elements resolve;",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "And we were mutual elements to us,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And made of one another.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My body then doth hers involve,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And those things whereof I consist hereby",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In me abundant grow, and burdenous,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And nourish not, but smother.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My fire of passion, sighs of air,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Water of tears, and earthy sad despair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which my materials be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But near worn out by love’s security,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She, to my loss, doth by her death repair.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And I might live long wretched so,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But that my fire doth with my fuel grow.",
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   {
    "text": "Now, as those active kings",
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   {
    "text": "Whose foreign conquest treasure brings,",
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   {
    "text": "Receive more, and spend more, and soonest break,",
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   {
    "text": "This⁠—which I am amazed that I can speak⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "This death, hath with my store",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My use increased.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And so my soul, more earnestly released,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will outstrip hers; as bullets flown before",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A later bullet may o’ertake, the powder being more.",
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