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 "title": "A Dream",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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  "year": 1827,
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    "text": "In visions of the dark night",
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   {
    "text": "I have dreamed of joy departed⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But a waking dream of life and light",
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    "text": "Hath left me broken-hearted.",
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    "text": "Ah! what is not a dream by day",
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    "text": "To him whose eyes are cast",
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    "text": "On things around him with a ray",
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   {
    "text": "Turned back upon the past?",
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    "text": "That holy dream⁠—that holy dream,",
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    "text": "While all the world were chiding,",
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    "text": "Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,",
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    "text": "A lonely spirit guiding.",
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    "text": "What though that light, thro’ storm and night,",
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    "text": "So trembled from afar⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "What could there be more purely bright",
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    "text": "In Truth’s day-star?",
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