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 "title": "To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy",
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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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  "year": 1633,
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   {
    "text": "Well died the world, that we might live to see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This world of wit, in his Anatomy.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No evil wants his good; so wilder heirs",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bedew their fathers’ tombs with forcèd tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose state requites their loss; whiles thus we gain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Well may we walk in blacks, but not complain.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet how can I consent the world is dead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While this Muse lives, which in his spirit’s stead",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seems to inform a world, and bids it be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In spite of loss or frail mortality?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thou, the subject of this wellborn thought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thrice noble maid, could’st not have found nor sought",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A fitter time to yield to thy sad fate,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than whiles this spirit lives, that can relate",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy worth so well to our last nephews’ eyne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That they shall wonder both at his and thine.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Admired match! where strives in mutual grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cunning pencil, and the comely face;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A task which thy fair goodness made too much",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the bold pride of vulgar pens to touch.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enough is us to praise them that praise thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And say, that but enough those praises be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which, hadst thou lived, had hid their fearful head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From th’ angry checkings of thy modest red.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Death bars reward and shame; when envy’s gone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And gain, ’tis safe to give the dead their own.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As then the wise Egyptians wont to lay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More on their tombs than houses; these of clay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But those of brass or marble were; so we",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give more unto thy ghost than unto thee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet what we give to thee, thou gavest to us,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And may’st but thank thyself for being thus.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet what thou gavest and wert, O happy maid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy grace profess’d all due, where ’tis repaid.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So these high songs, that to thee suited bin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Serve but to sound thy Maker’s praise in thine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which thy dear soul as sweetly sings to him",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Amid the choir of saints, and Seraphim,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As any angel’s tongue can sing of thee.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The subjects differ, though the skill agree.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For as by infant years men judge of age,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy early love, thy virtues, did presage",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What high part thou bear’st in those best of songs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whereto no burden nor no end belongs.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sing on, thou virgin soul, whose lossful gain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy lovesick parents have bewail’d in vain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne’er may thy name be in our songs forgot,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till we shall sing thy ditty and thy note.",
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   "id": "split-from-first-anniversary",
   "kind": "defect",
   "raised": "2026-08-19",
   "what": "This was stanza 1 of the welded john-donne/the-first-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.",
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