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 "title": "Gone, Gone Again",
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 "poet": "Edward Thomas",
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    "text": "Gone, gone again,",
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   {
    "text": "May, June, July,",
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    "text": "And August gone,",
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    "text": "Not memorable",
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    "text": "Save that I saw them go,",
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    "text": "As past the empty quays",
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    "text": "The rivers flow.",
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    "text": "And now again,",
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   {
    "text": "In the harvest rain,",
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   {
    "text": "The Blenheim oranges",
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    "text": "Fall grubby from the trees,",
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    "text": "As when I was young⁠—",
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    "text": "And when the lost one was here⁠—",
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    "text": "And when the war began",
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    "text": "To turn young men to dung.",
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    "text": "Look at the old house,",
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    "text": "Outmoded, dignified,",
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    "text": "Dark and untenanted,",
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    "text": "Of the footsteps of life,",
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    "text": "The friendliness, the strife;",
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    "text": "In its beds have lain",
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    "text": "I am something like that;",
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    "text": "Only I am not dead,",
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    "text": "In the house that is not dark:⁠—",
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    "text": "I am something like that:",
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    "text": "Not one pane to reflect the sun,",
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    "text": "For the schoolboys to throw at⁠—",
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    "text": "They have broken every one.",
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