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 "title": "Silence",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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  "year": 1845,
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "There are some qualities⁠—some incorporate things,",
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   {
    "text": "That have a double life, which thus is made",
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   {
    "text": "A type of that twin entity which springs",
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   {
    "text": "From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.",
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    "text": "There is a two-fold Silence⁠—sea and shore⁠—",
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    "text": "Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,",
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   {
    "text": "Newly with grass o’ergrown; some solemn graces,",
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   {
    "text": "Some human memories and tearful lore,",
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   {
    "text": "Render him terrorless: his name’s “No More.”",
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   {
    "text": "He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!",
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   {
    "text": "No power hath he of evil in himself;",
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   {
    "text": "But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!)",
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   {
    "text": "Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf,",
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   {
    "text": "That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod",
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   {
    "text": "No foot of man), commend thyself to God!",
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