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 "title": "Our Ship",
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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": "Had I a great ship coming home,",
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    "text": "With big plunge o’er the sea,",
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    "text": "Lay in her heart for thee!",
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