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 "poet": "Edward Thomas",
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 "book": "Last Poems",
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    "text": "When Winter’s ahead,",
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   {
    "text": "What can you read in November",
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    "text": "That you read in April",
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    "text": "When Winter’s dead?",
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    "text": "I hear the thrush, and I see",
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    "text": "Him alone at the end of the lane",
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    "text": "Near the bare poplar’s tip,",
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   {
    "text": "Is it more that you know",
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   {
    "text": "Than that, even as in April,",
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    "text": "So in November,",
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   {
    "text": "Winter is gone that must go?",
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    "text": "Or is all your lore",
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    "text": "Not to call November November,",
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    "text": "And April April,",
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    "text": "And Winter Winter⁠—no more?",
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    "text": "But I know the months all,",
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    "text": "And their sweet names, April,",
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    "text": "May and June and October,",
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    "text": "I must remember",
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    "text": "What died into April",
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    "text": "And consider what will be born",
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    "text": "Of a fair November;",
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    "text": "And April I love for what",
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    "text": "It was born of, and November",
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    "text": "For what it will die in,",
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    "text": "What they are and what they are not,",
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    "text": "While you love what is kind,",
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    "text": "What you can sing in",
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    "text": "And love and forget in",
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    "text": "All that’s ahead and behind.",
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