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 "title": "The Expiration",
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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": "So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,",
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   {
    "text": "Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away;",
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   {
    "text": "Turn, thou ghost, that way, and let me turn this,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And let ourselves benight our happiest day.",
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   {
    "text": "We ask none leave to love; nor will we owe",
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    "text": "Any so cheap a death as saying, “Go.”",
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    "text": "Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,",
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    "text": "Ease me with death, by bidding me go too.",
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   {
    "text": "Or, if it have, let my word work on me,",
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    "text": "And a just office on a murderer do.",
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    "text": "Except it be too late, to kill me so,",
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    "text": "Being double dead, going, and bidding, “Go.”",
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