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 "poet": "Edward Thomas",
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 "book": "Last Poems",
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  "year": 1918,
  "venue": "Last Poems (1918)",
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   {
    "text": "The Past is a strange land, most strange.",
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   {
    "text": "Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If they do, they cannot hurt at all.",
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   {
    "text": "Men of all kinds as equals range",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "The soundless fields and streets of it.",
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   {
    "text": "Pleasure and pain there have no sting,",
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   {
    "text": "The perished self not suffering",
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   {
    "text": "That lacks all blood and nerve and wit,",
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  [
   {
    "text": "And is in shadow-land a shade.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Remembered joy and misery",
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   {
    "text": "Bring joy to the joyous equally;",
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    "text": "Both sadden the sad. So memory made",
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    "text": "Parting to-day a double pain:",
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    "text": "First because it was parting; next",
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    "text": "Because the ill it ended vexed",
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    "text": "And mocked me from the Past again,",
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    "text": "Not as what had been remedied",
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   {
    "text": "Had I gone on⁠—not that, oh no!",
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    "text": "But as itself no longer woe;",
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   {
    "text": "Sighs, angry word and look and deed",
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    "text": "Being faded: rather a kind of bliss,",
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   {
    "text": "For there spiritualized it lay",
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    "text": "In the perpetual yesterday",
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    "text": "That naught can stir or stain like this.",
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