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 "poet": "George MacDonald",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Were thou and I the white pinions",
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   {
    "text": "On some eager, heaven-born dove,",
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   {
    "text": "Swift would we mount to the old dominions,",
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   {
    "text": "To our rest of old, my love!",
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    "text": "Were thou and I trembling strands",
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   {
    "text": "In music’s enchanted line,",
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    "text": "We would wait and wait for magic hands",
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    "text": "To untwist the magic twine.",
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    "text": "Were we two sky-tints, thou and I,",
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    "text": "Thou the golden, I the red;",
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    "text": "We would quiver and glow and darken and die,",
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    "text": "And love until we were dead!",
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    "text": "Nearer than wings of one dove,",
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    "text": "Than tones or colours in chord,",
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    "text": "We are one⁠—and safe, and for ever, my love,",
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    "text": "Two thoughts in the heart of one Lord.",
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