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 "title": "Faith",
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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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 "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": "Earth, if aught should check thy race,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rushing through unfended space,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Headlong, stayless, thou wilt fall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into yonder glowing ball!”",
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   }
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  [
   {
    "text": "“Beggar of the universe,",
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   {
    "text": "Faithless as an empty purse!",
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   {
    "text": "Sent abroad to cool and tame,",
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   {
    "text": "Think’st I fear my native flame?”",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“If thou never on thy track",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Turn thee round and hie thee back,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou wilt wander evermore,",
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   {
    "text": "Outcast, cold⁠—a comet hoar!”",
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  [
   {
    "text": "“While I sweep my ring along",
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   {
    "text": "In an air of joyous song,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art drifting, heart awry,",
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   {
    "text": "From the sun of liberty!”",
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