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 "title": "A Prayer",
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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Volume I",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1893,
  "venue": "The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Volume I (1893)",
  "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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Thou who mad’st the mighty clock",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the great world go;",
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   {
    "text": "Mad’st its pendulum swing and rock,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ceaseless to and fro;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou whose will doth push and draw",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Every orb in heaven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Help me move by higher law",
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    "text": "In my spirit graven.",
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    "text": "Like a planet let me swing⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "With intention strong;",
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   {
    "text": "In my orbit rushing sing",
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   {
    "text": "Jubilant along;",
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   {
    "text": "Help me answer in my course",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To my seasons due;",
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   {
    "text": "Lord of every stayless force,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make my Willing true.",
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