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 "title": "She Dotes",
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 "poet": "Edward Thomas",
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    "text": "She dotes on what the wild birds say",
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   {
    "text": "Or hint or mock at, night and day⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thrush, blackbird, all that sing in May,",
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   {
    "text": "And songless plover,",
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    "text": "Hawk, heron, owl, and woodpecker.",
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    "text": "They never say a word to her",
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    "text": "About her lover.",
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    "text": "She laughs at them for childishness,",
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   {
    "text": "She cries at them for carelessness",
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    "text": "Who see her going loverless",
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    "text": "Yet sing and chatter",
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   {
    "text": "Just as when he was not a ghost,",
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    "text": "Nor ever ask her what she has lost",
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    "text": "Or what is the matter.",
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    "text": "Yet she has fancied blackbirds hide",
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    "text": "A secret, and that thrushes chide",
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    "text": "Because she thinks death can divide",
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    "text": "Her from her lover;",
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    "text": "And she has slept, trying to translate",
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    "text": "The word the cuckoo cries to his mate",
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    "text": "Over and over.",
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