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 "title": "Flood-Tide of Flowers",
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 "subtitle": "In Holland",
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  "year": 1920,
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    "text": "The laggard winter ebbed so slow",
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    "text": "With freezing rain and melting snow,",
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   {
    "text": "It seemed as if the earth would stay",
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    "text": "Forever where the tide was low,",
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    "text": "In sodden green and watery gray.",
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    "text": "But now from depths beyond our sight,",
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    "text": "The tide is turning in the night,",
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    "text": "And floods of colour long concealed",
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    "text": "Come silent rising toward the light,",
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    "text": "Through garden bare and empty field.",
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    "text": "And first, along the sheltered nooks,",
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    "text": "The crocus runs in little brooks",
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    "text": "Of joyance, till by light made bold",
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    "text": "They show the gladness of their looks",
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    "text": "In shining pools of white and gold.",
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    "text": "The tiny scilla, sapphire blue,",
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    "text": "Is gently seeping in, to strew",
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    "text": "The earth with heaven; and sudden rills",
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    "text": "Of sunlit yellow, sweeping through,",
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    "text": "Spread into lakes of daffodils.",
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    "text": "The hyacinths, with fragrant heads,",
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   {
    "text": "Have overflowed their sandy beds,",
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   {
    "text": "And fill the earth with faint perfume,",
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    "text": "The breath that Spring around her sheds.",
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    "text": "And now the tulips break in bloom!",
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    "text": "A sea, a rainbow-tinted sea,",
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    "text": "A splendour and a mystery,",
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    "text": "Floods o’er the fields of faded gray:",
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    "text": "The roads are full of folks in glee,",
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    "text": "For lo⁠—to-day is Easter Day!",
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