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 "id": "fernando-pessoa/meantime",
 "title": "Meantime",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Fernando Pessoa",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "The Athenaeum, no. 4683 (30 January 1920), p. 136",
  "note": "Read on the page: the issue masthead gives “January 30, 1920 · No. 4683 · THE ATHENAEUM”, the poem stands under the heading MEANTIME and is signed Fernando Pessoa, and the half-yearly index lists “Pessoa, Ferdinand, Meantime, poem … 136”. Arquivo Pessoa gives the same printing. One reading differs from the text held here: the scan’s text layer has “She is somewhere past” where this record has “She is something past”. Whether that is the printing or the OCR wants the page image, and it is recorded rather than resolved.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
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   "http://arquivopessoa.net/textos/1750",
   "https://archive.org/details/p1athenaeum1920lond",
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   "https://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/CONTEMPORANEA/1923/N9/N9_item1"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Far away, far away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far away from here⁠ ⁠…",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There is no worry after joy",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or away from fear",
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   {
    "text": "Far away from here.",
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   {
    "text": "Her lips were not very red,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor her hair quite gold.",
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   {
    "text": "Her hands played with rings.",
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    "text": "She did not let me hold",
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    "text": "Her hands playing with gold.",
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   {
    "text": "She is something past,",
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   {
    "text": "Far away from pain.",
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   {
    "text": "Joy can touch her not, nor hope",
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   {
    "text": "Enter her domain,",
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   {
    "text": "Neither love in vain.",
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   {
    "text": "Perhaps at some day beyond",
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   {
    "text": "Shadows and light",
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   {
    "text": "She will think of me and make",
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   {
    "text": "All me a delight",
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   {
    "text": "All away from sight.",
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