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{
  "author": "<NAME>",
  "classification": "Sonnet",
  "keywords": [
    "Living",
    "Disappointment",
    "Failure"
  ],
  "period": "Renaissance",
  "reference": "http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174847",
  "region": "England",
  "text": [
    "I abide and abide and better abide,",
    "And after the old proverb, the happy day;",
    "And ever my lady to me doth say,",
    "\"Let me alone and I will provide.\"",
    "I abide and abide and tarry the tide,",
    "And with abiding speed well ye may.",
    "Thus do I abide I wot alway,",
    "Nother obtaining nor yet denied.",
    "Ay me! this long abiding",
    "Seemeth to me, as who sayeth,",
    "A prolonging of a dying death,",
    "Or a refusing of a desir'd thing.",
    "Much were it better for to be plain",
    "Than to say \"abide\" and yet shall not obtain."
  ],
  "title": "I Abide and Abide and Better Abide",
  "year": ""
}