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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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  "year": 1893,
  "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": "I follow, tottering, in the funeral train",
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   {
    "text": "That bears my body to the welcoming grave.",
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   {
    "text": "As those I mourn not, that entomb the brave,",
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   {
    "text": "But smile as those that lay aside the vain;",
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    "text": "To me it is a thing of poor disdain,",
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   {
    "text": "A clod I would not give a sigh to save!",
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   {
    "text": "I follow, careless, in the funeral train,",
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    "text": "My outworn raiment to the cleansing grave.",
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   {
    "text": "I follow to the grave with growing pain⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Then sudden cry: Let Earth take what she gave!",
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   {
    "text": "And turn in gladness from the yawning cave⁠—",
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    "text": "Glad even for those whose tears yet flow amain:",
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   {
    "text": "They also follow, in their funeral train,",
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   {
    "text": "Outworn necessities to the welcoming grave!",
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