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 "poet": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
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   {
    "text": "Can it be right to give what I can give?",
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   {
    "text": "To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Re-sighing on my lips renunciative",
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   {
    "text": "Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live",
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   {
    "text": "For all thy adjurations? O my fears,",
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   {
    "text": "That this can scarce be right! We are not peers,",
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   {
    "text": "So to be lovers; and I own and grieve",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That givers of such gifts as mine are, must",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be counted with the ungenerous. Out, alas!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I will not soil thy purple with my dust,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice-glass,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor give thee any love⁠—which were unjust.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beloved, I only love thee! let it pass.",
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