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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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  "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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    "text": "Father, in the dark I lay,",
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   {
    "text": "Thirsting for the light,",
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    "text": "Helpless, but for hope alway",
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    "text": "In thy father-might.",
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    "text": "Out of darkness came the morn,",
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    "text": "Out of death came life,",
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    "text": "I, and faith, and hope, new-born,",
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    "text": "Out of moaning strife!",
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    "text": "So, one morning yet more fair,",
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    "text": "I shall, joyous-brave,",
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    "text": "Sudden breathing loftier air,",
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    "text": "Triumph o’er the grave.",
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    "text": "Though this feeble body lie",
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    "text": "Underneath the ground,",
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    "text": "Wide awake, not sleeping, I",
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    "text": "Shall in him be found.",
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    "text": "But a morn yet fairer must",
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    "text": "Quell this inner gloom⁠—",
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    "text": "Resurrection from the dust",
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    "text": "Of a deeper tomb!",
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    "text": "Father, wake thy little child;",
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    "text": "Give me bread and wine",
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   {
    "text": "Till my spirit undefiled",
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    "text": "Rise and live in thine.",
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