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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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    "text": "I saw thee on thy bridal day⁠—",
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    "text": "When a burning blush came o’er thee,",
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    "text": "(Whatever it might be)",
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    "text": "Was all on Earth my aching sight",
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    "text": "Of Loveliness could see.",
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    "text": "That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame⁠—",
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    "text": "As such it well may pass⁠—",
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    "text": "Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame",
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    "text": "In the breast of him, alas!",
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    "text": "When that deep blush would come o’er thee,",
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