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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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  "year": 1847,
  "venue": "Home Journal (13 March 1847), as “To M. L. S——”",
  "note": "The first of Poe's two poems to Marie Louise Shew, who nursed Virginia Poe in her last illness; the manuscript Poe gave her is dated February 1847.",
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Poe)",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Serenade_(Poe)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Of all who hail thy presence as the morning⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Of all to whom thine absence is the night⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The blotting utterly from out high heaven",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sacred sun⁠—of all who, weeping, bless thee",
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   {
    "text": "Hourly for hope⁠—for life⁠—ah, above all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the resurrection of deep buried faith",
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   {
    "text": "In truth, in virtue, in humanity⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Of all who, on despair’s unhallowed bed",
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   {
    "text": "Lying down to die, have suddenly arisen",
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   {
    "text": "At thy soft-murmured words, “Let there be light!”",
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   {
    "text": "At the soft-murmured words that were fulfilled",
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   {
    "text": "In the seraphic glancing of thine eyes⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Of all who owe thee most, whose gratitude",
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   {
    "text": "Nearest resembles worship⁠—oh, remember",
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   {
    "text": "The truest, the most fervently devoted,",
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   {
    "text": "And think that these weak lines are written by him⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "By him who, as he pens them, thrills to think",
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    "text": "His spirit is communing with an angel’s.",
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