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 "title": "The Paradox",
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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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 "sequence": null,
 "container": "Songs and Sonnets",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1633,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "No lover saith, I love, nor any other",
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   {
    "text": "Can judge a perfect lover;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He thinks that else none can or will agree,",
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   {
    "text": "That any loves but he;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I cannot say I loved, for who can say",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He was kill’d yesterday.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love with excess of heat, more young than old,",
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   {
    "text": "Death kills with too much cold;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We die but once, and who loved last did die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He that saith, twice, doth lie;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For though he seem to move, and stir a while,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It doth the sense beguile.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Such life is like the light which bideth yet",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When the life’s light is set,",
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   {
    "text": "Or like the heat which fire in solid matter",
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   {
    "text": "Leaves behind, two hours after.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Once I loved and died; and am now become",
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   {
    "text": "Mine epitaph and tomb;",
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   {
    "text": "Here dead men speak their last, and so do I;",
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   {
    "text": "Love-slain, lo! here I die.",
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