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 "title": "The Indifferent",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "container": "Songs and Sonnets",
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  "year": 1633,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
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    "text": "I can love both fair and brown;",
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   {
    "text": "Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays;",
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   {
    "text": "Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays;",
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   {
    "text": "Her whom the country form’d, and whom the town;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her who believes, and her who tries;",
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   {
    "text": "Her who still weeps with spongy eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "And her who is dry cork, and never cries.",
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   {
    "text": "I can love her, and her, and you, and you;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I can love any, so she be not true.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Will no other vice content you?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will it not serve your turn to do as did your mothers?",
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   {
    "text": "Or have you all old vices spent and now would find out others?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or doth a fear that men are true torment you?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O we are not, be not you so;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let me⁠—and do you⁠—twenty know;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rob me, but bind me not, and let me go.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must I, who came to travel thorough you,",
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   {
    "text": "Grow your fix’d subject, because you are true?",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Venus heard me sigh this song;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And by love’s sweetest part, variety, she swore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She heard not this till now; it should be so no more.",
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   {
    "text": "She went, examined, and return’d ere long,",
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    "text": "And said, “Alas! some two or three",
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   {
    "text": "Poor heretics in love there be,",
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    "text": "Which think to stablish dangerous constancy.",
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   {
    "text": "But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You shall be true to them who’re false to you.’ ”",
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