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 "title": "The Harbinger to the Progress",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "container": "An Anatomy of the World",
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  "note": "Chambers’s 1896 contents lists this “[By Joseph Hall]”. Standard Ebooks prints the name as a signature. The identification is editorial: the brackets in Chambers mark it as a later ascription, not a byline on the 1611 pamphlet.",
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  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
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    "text": "Two souls move here, and mine, a third, must move",
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   {
    "text": "Paces of admiration and of love.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy soul, dear virgin, whose this tribute is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Moved from this mortal sphere to lively bliss",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yet moves still, and still aspires to see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The world’s last day, thy glory’s full degree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like as those stars which thou o’erlookest far,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are in their place, and yet still movèd are.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No soul⁠—whiles with the luggage of this clay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It clogged is⁠—Scan follow thee halfway;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or see thy flight, which doth our thoughts outgo",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So fast, as now the lightning moves but slow.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But now thou art as high in heaven flown",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As heavens from us, what soul besides thine own",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can tell thy joys, or say he can relate",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy glorious journals in that blessed state?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I envy thee, rich soul, I envy thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Although I cannot yet thy glory see.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thou, great spirit, which hers followed hast",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So fast, as none can follow thine so fast;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So far, as none can follow thine so far",
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   },
   {
    "text": "—And if this flesh did not the passage bar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hadst caught her⁠—let me wonder at thy flight,",
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   {
    "text": "Which long agone hadst lost the vulgar sight,",
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   {
    "text": "And now makest proud the better eyes, that they",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can see thee lessened in thine airy way.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So while thou makest her soul by progress known,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou makest a noble progress of thine own,",
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   {
    "text": "From this world’s carcase having mounted high",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To that pure life of immortality;",
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   {
    "text": "Since thine aspiring thoughts themselves so raise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That more may not beseem a creature’s praise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet still thou vow’st her more, and every year",
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   {
    "text": "Makest a new progress, while thou wanderest here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still upward mount; and let thy Maker’s praise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Honour thy Laura, and adorn thy lays.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And since thy Muse her head in heaven shrouds,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oh, let her never stoop below the clouds;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And if those glorious sainted souls may know",
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   {
    "text": "Or what we do, or what we sing below,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those acts, those songs shall still content them best",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which praise those awful Powers that make them blest.",
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   "id": "split-from-second-anniversary",
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   "raised": "2026-08-19",
   "what": "This was stanza 1 of the welded john-donne/the-second-anniversary record. Chambers vol. 2 contents and the Standard Ebooks inner heading list it as its own poem, “[By Joseph Hall]”.",
   "consequence": "Split. Filed under john-donne because it belongs to the Anatomy gathering; attribution carries the byline. The flag list is not the split list.",
   "to_settle": "Nothing on the verse. A 1612 Second Anniversary pamphlet would show whether the page names him.",
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