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 "poet": "Edgar Lee Masters",
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   {
    "text": "Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys,",
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   {
    "text": "Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain",
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   {
    "text": "For the guilty passion of Tereus for Philomela,",
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   {
    "text": "The flesh of him served to Tereus by Procne,",
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    "text": "And the wrath of Tereus, the murderess pursuing",
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    "text": "Till the gods made Philomela a nightingale,",
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    "text": "Lute of the rising moon, and Procne a swallow!",
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   {
    "text": "Oh livers and artists of Hellas centuries gone,",
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   {
    "text": "Sealing in little thuribles dreams and wisdom,",
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   {
    "text": "Incense beyond all price, forever fragrant,",
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   {
    "text": "A breath whereof makes clear the eyes of the soul!",
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   {
    "text": "How I inhaled its sweetness here in Spoon River!",
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   {
    "text": "The thurible opening when I had lived and learned",
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   {
    "text": "How all of us kill the children of love, and all of us,",
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   {
    "text": "Knowing not what we do, devour their flesh;",
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   {
    "text": "And all of us change to singers, although it be",
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    "text": "But once in our lives, or change⁠—alas!⁠—to swallows,",
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    "text": "To twitter amid cold winds and falling leaves!",
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