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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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 "book": "Tamerlane and Other Poems",
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 "epigraph": "How often we forget all time, when lone / Admiring Nature’s universal throne; / Her woods⁠—her wilds⁠—her mountains⁠—the intense / Reply of Hers to Our intelligence!",
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  "year": 1827,
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   {
    "text": "In youth I have known one with whom the Earth",
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   {
    "text": "In secret communing held⁠—as he with it,",
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   {
    "text": "In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth:",
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   {
    "text": "Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit",
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    "text": "From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth",
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   {
    "text": "A passionate light such for his spirit was fit⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And yet that spirit knew⁠—not in the hour",
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    "text": "Of its own fervor⁠—what had o’er it power.",
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   {
    "text": "Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought",
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    "text": "To a fever by the moonbeam that hangs o’er,",
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   {
    "text": "But I will half believe that wild light fraught",
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   {
    "text": "With more of sovereignty than ancient lore",
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   {
    "text": "Hath ever told⁠—or is it of a thought",
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   {
    "text": "The unembodied essence, and no more",
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   {
    "text": "That with a quickening spell doth o’er us pass",
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   {
    "text": "As dew of the night-time, o’er the summer grass?",
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   {
    "text": "Doth o’er us pass, when, as th’ expanding eye",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the loved object⁠—so the tear to the lid",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will start, which lately slept in apathy?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yet it need not be⁠—(that object) hid",
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   {
    "text": "From us in life⁠—but common⁠—which doth lie",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each hour before us⁠—but then only bid",
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   {
    "text": "With a strange sound, as of a harp-string broken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "T’ awake us⁠—’Tis a symbol and a token⁠—",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Of what in other worlds shall be⁠—and given",
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   {
    "text": "In beauty by our God, to those alone",
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   {
    "text": "Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drawn by their heart’s passion, and that tone,",
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   {
    "text": "That high tone of the spirit which hath striven",
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   {
    "text": "Though not with Faith⁠—with godliness⁠—whose throne",
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   {
    "text": "With desperate energy ’t hath beaten down;",
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   {
    "text": "Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.",
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