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  "note": "Taken from the 1893 collected Poetical Works, which is the printing this text is and not the poem's first appearance. MacDonald gathered and revised for it work published from 1855 onward, and it arranges the poems by its own editorial grouping rather than by the volumes they came from, so which earlier book or magazine printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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    "text": "Methinks I see thee, lying straight and low,",
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    "text": "Silent and darkling, in thy earthy bed,",
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   {
    "text": "The mighty strength in which I trusted, fled,",
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    "text": "The long arms lying careless of kiss or blow;",
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    "text": "On thy tall form I see the night-robe flow",
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    "text": "Down from the pale, composed face⁠—thy head",
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    "text": "Crowned with its own dark curls: though thou wast dead,",
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    "text": "They dressed thee as for sleep, and left thee so!",
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    "text": "My heart, with cares and questionings oppressed,",
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    "text": "Not oft since thou didst leave us turns to thee;",
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   {
    "text": "But wait, my brother, till I too am dead,",
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    "text": "And thou shalt find that heart more true, more free,",
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    "text": "More ready in thy love to take its rest,",
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    "text": "Than when we lay together in one bed.",
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