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 "title": "To Mr. I. L.",
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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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  "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": "Blest are your north parts, for all this long time",
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   {
    "text": "My sun is with you; cold and dark ’s our clime;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Heaven’s sun, which stay’d so long from us this year,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Stay’d in your north, I think, for she was there;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hither by kind nature drawn from thence,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here rages, chafes, and threatens pestilence.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet I, as long as she from hence doth stay,",
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   {
    "text": "Think this no south, no summer, nor no day.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With thee my kind and unkind heart is run;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There sacrifice it to that beauteous sun.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So may thy pastures with their flowery feasts,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As suddenly as lard, fat thy lean beasts;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So may thy woods oft poll’d, yet ever wear",
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   {
    "text": "A green, and⁠—when thee list⁠—a golden hair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So may all thy sheep bring forth twins; and so",
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   {
    "text": "In chase and race may thy horse all outgo;",
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   {
    "text": "So may thy love and courage ne’er be cold;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy son ne’er ward; thy loved wife ne’er seem old.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But mayst thou wish great things, and them attain,",
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   {
    "text": "As thou tell’st her, and none but her, my pain.",
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