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 "title": "Love Is Home",
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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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  "year": 1893,
  "venue": "The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Volume I (1893)",
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   {
    "text": "Love is the part, and love is the whole;",
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   {
    "text": "Love is the robe, and love is the pall;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ruler of heart and brain and soul,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love is the lord and the slave of all!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I thank thee, Love, that thou lov’st me;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I thank thee more that I love thee.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Love is the rain, and love is the air,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love is the earth that holdeth fast;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love is the root that is buried there,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love is the open flower at last!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I thank thee, Love all round about,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That the eyes of my love are looking out.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Love is the sun, and love is the sea;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love is the tide that comes and goes;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Flowing and flowing it comes to me;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ebbing and ebbing to thee it flows!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oh my sun, and my wind, and tide!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My sea, and my shore, and all beside!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Light, oh light that art by showing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wind, oh wind that liv’st by motion;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thought, oh thought that art by knowing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will, that art born in self-devotion!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love is you, though not all of you know it;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye are not love, yet ye always show it!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Faithful creator, heart-longed-for father,",
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   {
    "text": "Home of our heart-infolded brother,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Home to thee all thy glories gather⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All are thy love, and there is no other!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O Love-at-rest, we loves that roam⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Home unto thee, we are coming home!",
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   }
  ]
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