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 "title": "October",
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 "poet": "Edward Thomas",
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   {
    "text": "The green elm with the one great bough of gold",
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   {
    "text": "Lets leaves into the grass slip, one by one⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The short hill grass, the mushrooms small milk-white,",
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   {
    "text": "Harebell and scabious and tormentil,",
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   {
    "text": "That blackberry and gorse, in dew and sun,",
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   {
    "text": "Bow down to; and the wind travels too light",
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   {
    "text": "To shake the fallen birch leaves from the fern;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The gossamers wander at their own will.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At heavier steps than birds’ the squirrels scold.",
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   {
    "text": "The rich scene has grown fresh again and new",
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   {
    "text": "As Spring and to the touch is not more cool",
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   {
    "text": "Than it is warm to the gaze; and now I might",
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   {
    "text": "As happy be as earth is beautiful,",
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    "text": "Were I some other or with earth could turn",
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    "text": "In alternation of violet and rose,",
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    "text": "Harebell and snowdrop, at their season due,",
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   {
    "text": "And gorse that has no time not to be gay.",
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   {
    "text": "But if this be not happiness⁠—who knows?",
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    "text": "Some day I shall think this a happy day,",
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   {
    "text": "And this mood by the name of melancholy",
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    "text": "Shall no more blackened and obscured be.",
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