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 "title": "A Gentleman",
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 "poet": "Edward Thomas",
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  "year": 1917,
  "venue": "Poems (1917)",
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   {
    "text": "“He has robbed two clubs. The judge at Salisbury",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can’t give him more than he undoubtedly",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Deserves. The scoundrel! Look at his photograph!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A lady-killer! Hanging’s too good by half",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For such as he.” So said the stranger, one",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With crimes yet undiscovered or undone.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But at the inn the Gipsy dame began:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Now he was what I call a gentleman.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He went along with Carrie, and when she",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had a baby he paid up so readily",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His half a crown. Just like him. A crown’d have been",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More like him. For I never knew him mean.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oh! but he was such a nice gentleman. Oh!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Last time we met he said if me and Joe",
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   {
    "text": "Was anywhere near we must be sure and call.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He put his arms around our Amos all",
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   {
    "text": "As if he were his own son. I pray God",
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   {
    "text": "Save him from justice! Nicer man never trod.”",
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