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 "title": "The Bridal Ballad",
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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)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Poe)",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Serenade_(Poe)",
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   "https://archive.org/details/cu31924019520810",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The ring is on my hand,",
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   {
    "text": "And the wreath is on my brow;",
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   {
    "text": "Satins and jewels grand",
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   {
    "text": "Are all at my command",
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   {
    "text": "And I am happy now.",
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   {
    "text": "And my lord he loves me well;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, when first he breathed his vow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I felt my bosom swell⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "For the words rang as a knell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the voice seemed his who fell",
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   {
    "text": "In the battle down the dell,",
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    "text": "And who is happy now.",
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    "text": "But he spoke to reassure me,",
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   {
    "text": "And he kissed my pallid brow,",
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   {
    "text": "While a reverie came o’er me,",
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   {
    "text": "And to the churchyard bore me,",
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   {
    "text": "And I sighed to him before me,",
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   {
    "text": "Thinking him dead D’Elormie,",
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   {
    "text": "“Oh, I am happy now!”",
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   {
    "text": "And thus the words were spoken,",
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   {
    "text": "And thus the plighted vow,",
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   {
    "text": "And, though my faith be broken,",
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   {
    "text": "And, though my heart be broken,",
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    "text": "Behold the golden token",
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    "text": "That proves me happy now!",
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    "text": "Would to God I could awaken!",
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   {
    "text": "For I dream I know not how,",
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   {
    "text": "And my soul is sorely shaken",
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   {
    "text": "Lest an evil step be taken⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Lest the dead who is forsaken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May not be happy now.",
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