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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": "The mountain-stream may humbly boast",
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    "text": "For her the loud waves call;",
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    "text": "The hamlet feeds the nation’s host,",
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    "text": "And unto earth heaven’s Lord doth lend",
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    "text": "The right, of high import,",
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    "text": "The gladsome privilege to send",
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    "text": "New courtiers to Love’s court.",
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    "text": "Not strange to thee, O lady dear,",
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    "text": "Life in that palace fair,",
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    "text": "For thou while waiting with us here",
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    "text": "Thy heart still open to receive,",
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    "text": "Open thy hand to give,",
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    "text": "God had thee graced with more than leave",
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    "text": "In heavenly state to live!",
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    "text": "And though thou art gone up so high",
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    "text": "Thou art not gone so far",
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    "text": "But that thy love to us comes nigh,",
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    "text": "As starlight from a star.",
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    "text": "And ours must reach where’er thou art,",
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    "text": "In far or near abode,",
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    "text": "For God is of all love the heart,",
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    "text": "And we are all in God.",
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