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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": "Sad-hearted, be at peace: the snowdrop lies",
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    "text": "Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow;",
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    "text": "But spring is floating up the southern skies,",
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    "text": "And darkling the pale snowdrop waits below.",
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    "text": "Let me persuade: in dull December’s day",
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    "text": "We scarce believe there is a month of June;",
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    "text": "But up the stairs of April and of May",
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    "text": "The hot sun climbeth to the summer’s noon.",
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    "text": "Yet hear me: I love God, and half I rest.",
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    "text": "O better! God loves thee, so all rest thou.",
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    "text": "He is our summer, our dim-visioned Best;⁠—",
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    "text": "And in his heart thy prayer is resting now.",
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