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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "book": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Send home my long stray’d eyes to me,",
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   {
    "text": "Which, O! too long have dwelt on thee;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet since there they have learn’d such ill,",
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   {
    "text": "Such forced fashions,",
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   {
    "text": "And false passions,",
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   {
    "text": "That they be",
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    "text": "Made by thee",
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    "text": "Fit for no good sight, keep them still.",
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   {
    "text": "Send home my harmless heart again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which no unworthy thought could stain;",
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   {
    "text": "But if it be taught by thine",
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   {
    "text": "To make jestings",
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    "text": "Of protestings,",
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   {
    "text": "And break both",
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    "text": "Word and oath,",
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    "text": "Keep it, for then ’tis none of mine.",
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    "text": "Yet send me back my heart and eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "That I may know, and see thy lies,",
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   {
    "text": "And may laugh and joy, when thou",
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   {
    "text": "Art in anguish",
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   {
    "text": "And dost languish",
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   {
    "text": "For someone",
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   {
    "text": "That will none,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or prove as false as thou art now.",
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