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 "title": "Serenade",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1833,
  "venue": "Baltimore Saturday Visiter (20 April 1833)",
  "note": "Poe never reprinted it and it was lost to his editors until John C. French found the file of the Visiter in 1917; it was put back into print in 1918.",
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Poe)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "So sweet the hour⁠—so calm the time,",
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   {
    "text": "I feel it more than half a crime,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To mar the silence ev’n with lute.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At rest on ocean’s brilliant dyes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An image of Elysium lies:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Form in the deep another seven:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Endymion nodding from above",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sees in the sea a second love.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Within the valleys dim and brown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on the spectral mountain’s crown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The wearied light is dying down;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are redolent of sleep, as I",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Am redolent of thee and thine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enthralling love, my Adeline.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But list, O list⁠—so soft and low",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy lover’s voice tonight shall flow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My words the music of a dream.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus, while no single sound too rude,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon thy slumber shall intrude,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our thoughts, our souls⁠—O God above!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In every deed shall mingle, love.",
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