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 "title": "The Good-Morrow",
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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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  "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": "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did, till we loved? were we not wean’d till then?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But suck’d on country pleasures, childishly?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If ever any beauty I did see,",
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   {
    "text": "Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.",
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   {
    "text": "And now good-morrow to our waking souls,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which watch not one another out of fear;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For love all love of other sights controls,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And makes one little room an everywhere.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where can we find two better hemispheres",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Without sharp north, without declining west?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whatever dies, was not mix’d equally;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If our two loves be one, or thou and I",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.",
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