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 "poet": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
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    "text": "Let the world’s sharpness like a clasping knife",
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   {
    "text": "Shut in upon itself and do no harm",
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   {
    "text": "In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And let us hear no sound of human strife",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After the click of the shutting. Life to life⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I lean upon thee, Dear, without alarm,",
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   {
    "text": "And feel as safe as guarded by a charm",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Against the stab of worldlings, who if rife",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are weak to injure. Very whitely still",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The lilies of our lives may reassure",
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   {
    "text": "Their blossoms from their roots, accessible",
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   {
    "text": "Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;",
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   {
    "text": "Growing straight, out of man’s reach, on the hill.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.",
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