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 "id": "georgia-douglas-johnson/my-son",
 "title": "My Son",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Georgia Douglas Johnson",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1924,
  "venue": "The Crisis 29.1 (November 1924)",
  "note": "Located in the issue scan on disk under the heading MY SON and signed “GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON”, in the same issue as “To Your Eyes”. Both stanzas are present. The printed text closes “I see—THE DAY IS COMING!” in capitals where the corpus has “I see—the day is coming!”; recorded, not adjudicated.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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  [
   {
    "text": "Stronger than man-made bars, the chain,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That rounds your life’s arena,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Deeper than hell the anchor sweeps",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That stills your young desires;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Darker than night the inward look",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That meditation offers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Redder than blood the future years",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Roll down the hills of torture!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But ah! you were not made for this,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And life is but preluding⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The major theme shall hold its sway",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When full awake, not dreaming,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your ebon foot shall press the sod",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where immortelles are blooming;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Beyond the glaze of fevered years",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I see⁠—the day is coming!",
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   }
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