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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": "O Thou that walkest with nigh hopeless feet",
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   {
    "text": "Past the one harbour, built for thee and thine.",
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   {
    "text": "Doth no stray odour from its table greet,",
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    "text": "No truant beam from fire or candle shine?",
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    "text": "At his wide door the host doth stand and call;",
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    "text": "At every lattice gracious forms invite;",
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    "text": "Thou seest but a dull-gray, solid wall",
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    "text": "In forest sullen with the things of night!",
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    "text": "Thou cravest rest, and Rest for thee doth crave,",
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    "text": "The white sheet folded down, white robe apart.⁠—",
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    "text": "Shame, Faithless! No, I do not mean the grave!",
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    "text": "I mean Love’s very house and hearth and heart.",
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