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 "title": "Spell",
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 "poet": "Fernando Pessoa",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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  "year": 1923,
  "venue": "Contemporânea, no. 9 (Lisbon, March 1923)",
  "note": "Not verified against the page. Arquivo Pessoa records the printing as “1ª pub. in Contemporânea, nº 9. Lisboa: Mar. 1923”, and Standard Ebooks names the Hemeroteca Digital scan of that same issue among its sources; that scan is behind a challenge page and no copy is held here.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "From the moonlit brink of dreams",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I stretch foiled hands to thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O borne down other streams",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than eye can think to see!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O crowned with spirit-beams!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O veiled spirituality!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My dreams and thoughts abate",
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   {
    "text": "Their pennons at thy feet,",
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   {
    "text": "O angel born too late",
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   {
    "text": "For fallen men to meet!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In what new sensual state",
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   {
    "text": "Could our twined lives feel sweet?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What new emotion must",
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   {
    "text": "I dream to think thee mine?",
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   {
    "text": "What purity of lust?",
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   {
    "text": "O tendrilled as a vine",
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   {
    "text": "Around my caressed trust!",
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   {
    "text": "O dream-pressed spirit-wine!",
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