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 "title": "To One in Paradise",
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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)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Thou wast all that to me, love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For which my soul did pine⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A green isle in the sea, love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A fountain and a shrine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the flowers were mine.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Ah, dream too bright to last!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But to be overcast!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A voice from out the Future cries,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“On! on!”⁠—but o’er the Past",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mute, motionless, aghast!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "For, alas! alas! with me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The light of Life is o’er!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“No more⁠—no more⁠—no more”⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Such language holds the solemn sea",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the sands upon the shore)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or the stricken eagle soar!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And all my days are trances,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all my nightly dreams",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are where thy dark eye glances,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And where thy footstep gleams⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In what ethereal dances,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By what eternal streams!",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Alas! for that accursèd time",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They bore thee o’er the billow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From love to titled age and crime,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And an unholy pillow!⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From me, and from our misty clime,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where weeps the silver willow!",
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