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  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1920)",
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    "text": "Afterthought of summer’s bloom!",
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   {
    "text": "Late arrival at the feast,",
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    "text": "Coming when the songs have ceased",
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    "text": "And the merry guests departed,",
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    "text": "Leaving but an empty room,",
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    "text": "Silence, solitude, and gloom⁠—",
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    "text": "Are you lonely, heavy-hearted;",
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    "text": "You, the last of all your kind,",
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    "text": "Nodding in the autumn-wind;",
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    "text": "Now that all your friends are flown,",
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    "text": "Blooming late and all alone?",
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    "text": "Nay, I wrong you, little flower,",
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    "text": "Reading mournful mood of mine",
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    "text": "In your looks, that give no sign",
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    "text": "Of a spirit dark and cheerless!",
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    "text": "You possess the heavenly power",
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    "text": "That rejoices in the hour.",
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    "text": "Glad, contented, free, and fearless,",
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   {
    "text": "Lift a sunny face to heaven",
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   {
    "text": "When a sunny day is given!",
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   {
    "text": "Make a summer of your own,",
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    "text": "Blooming late and all alone!",
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    "text": "Once the daisies gold and white",
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    "text": "Sea-like through the meadow rolled:",
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    "text": "Once my heart could hardly hold",
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    "text": "All its pleasures. I remember,",
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    "text": "In the flood of youth’s delight",
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    "text": "Separate joys were lost to sight.",
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    "text": "That was summer! Now November",
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    "text": "Sets the perfect flower apart;",
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    "text": "Gives each blossom of the heart",
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    "text": "Meaning, beauty, grace unknown⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Blooming late and all alone.",
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