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 "title": "The Thank-Offering",
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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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 "book": "The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Volume I",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "My Lily snatches not my gift;",
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   {
    "text": "Glad is she to be fed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But to her mouth she will not lift",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The piece of broken bread,",
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   {
    "text": "Till on my lips, unerring, swift,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The morsel she has laid.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "This is her grace before her food,",
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   {
    "text": "This her libation poured;",
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   {
    "text": "Even thus his offering, Aaron good",
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   {
    "text": "Heaved up to thank the Lord,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When for the people all he stood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with a cake adored.",
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   {
    "text": "So, Father, every gift of thine",
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   {
    "text": "I offer at thy knee;",
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   {
    "text": "Else take I not the love divine",
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   {
    "text": "With which it comes to me;",
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   {
    "text": "Not else the offered grace is mine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of sharing life with thee.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Yea, all my being I would bring,",
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   {
    "text": "Yielding it utterly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not yet a full-possessed thing",
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   {
    "text": "Till heaved again to thee:",
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   {
    "text": "Away, my self! away, and cling",
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   {
    "text": "To him that makes thee be!",
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