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 "title": "Lenore",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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 "book": "The Raven and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1845,
  "venue": "The Raven and Other Poems (1845)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!",
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   {
    "text": "Let the bell toll!⁠—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?⁠—weep now or never more!",
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   {
    "text": "See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come! let the burial rite be read⁠—the funeral song be sung!⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,",
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   {
    "text": "And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her⁠—that she died!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How shall the ritual, then, be read?⁠—the requiem how be sung",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By you⁠—by yours, the evil eye⁠—by yours, the slanderous tongue",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?”",
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   {
    "text": "Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sweet Lenore hath “gone before,” with Hope, that flew beside",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For her, the fair and débonnaire, that now so lowly lies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The life still there, upon her hair⁠—the death upon her eyes.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let no bell toll!⁠—lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damnèd Earth.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven.”",
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