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  "venue": "Flag of Our Union (7 July 1849), as “Sonnet — To My Mother”",
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    "text": "Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,",
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    "text": "None so devotional as that of “Mother,”",
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    "text": "Therefore by that dear name I long have called you⁠—",
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    "text": "You who are more than mother unto me,",
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    "text": "My mother⁠—my own mother, who died early,",
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