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 "poet": "Georgia Douglas Johnson",
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  "venue": "The Crisis 34.3 (May 1927), as by “Frank L. Horne”",
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    "text": "Too late to roll the tangled skein",
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   {
    "text": "The knot is taut, what might have been",
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   {
    "text": "Passed with the pangs of yesterday⁠—",
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    "text": "The secret page of history.",
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   {
    "text": "Red blood and white and black combine⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Can you dissever yours from mine?",
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   {
    "text": "Such motifs are not thus undone,",
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    "text": "Like prowess might command the sun.",
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    "text": "Too late to roll the tangled skein,",
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    "text": "At first perhaps, this might have been,",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis now too hard and passing late",
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   {
    "text": "To disentwine the threads of Fate!",
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