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 "title": "Reminded",
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 "poet": "Ambrose Bierce",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath my window twilight made",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Familiar mysteries of shade.",
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   {
    "text": "Faint voices from the darkening down",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were calling vaguely to the town.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Intent upon a low, far gleam",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That burned upon the world’s extreme,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I sat, with short reprieve from grief,",
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   {
    "text": "And turned the volume, leaf by leaf,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherein a hand, long dead, had wrought",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A million miracles of thought.",
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   {
    "text": "My fingers carelessly unclung",
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   {
    "text": "The lettered pages, and among",
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   {
    "text": "Them wandered witless, nor divined",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The wealth in which, poor fools, they mined.",
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   {
    "text": "The soul that should have led their quest",
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    "text": "Was dreaming in the level west,",
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   {
    "text": "Where a tall tower, stark and still,",
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   {
    "text": "Uplifted on a distant hill,",
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   {
    "text": "Stood lone and passionless to claim",
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    "text": "Its guardian star’s returning flame.",
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   {
    "text": "I know not how my dream was broke,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But suddenly my spirit woke",
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    "text": "Filled with a foolish fear to look",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the hand that clove the book,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Significantly pointing; next",
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   {
    "text": "I bent attentive to the text,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And read⁠—and as I read grew old⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The mindless words: “Poor Tom’s a-cold!”",
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   {
    "text": "Ah me! to what a subtle touch",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The brimming cup resigns its clutch",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the wine. Dear God, is’t writ",
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   {
    "text": "That hearts their overburden bear",
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   {
    "text": "Of bitterness though thou permit",
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   {
    "text": "The pranks of Chance, alurk in nooks,",
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   {
    "text": "And striking coward blows from books,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And dead hands reaching everywhere?",
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