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 "title": "Gratitude",
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 "poet": "Henry van Dyke Jr.",
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  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1920)",
  "note": "Taken from the 1920 collected edition. That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume gathers work published from 1897 onward, and which earlier book or magazine printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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   {
    "text": "“Do you give thanks for this?⁠—or that?” No, God be thanked",
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   {
    "text": "I am not grateful",
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   {
    "text": "In that cold, calculating way, with blessings ranked",
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    "text": "As one, two, three, and four⁠—that would be hateful.",
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   {
    "text": "I only know that every day brings good above",
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   {
    "text": "My poor deserving;",
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   {
    "text": "I only feel that in the road of Life true Love",
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    "text": "Is leading me along and never swerving.",
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    "text": "Whatever gifts and mercies to my lot may fall,",
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    "text": "I would not measure",
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    "text": "As worth a certain price in praise, or great or small;",
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    "text": "But take and use them all with simple pleasure.",
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    "text": "For when we gladly eat our daily bread, we bless",
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   {
    "text": "The Hand that feeds us;",
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   {
    "text": "And when we tread the road of Life in cheerfulness,",
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    "text": "Our very heart-beats praise the Love that leads us.",
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