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 "title": "Hide and Seek",
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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": "All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still,",
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   {
    "text": "All the fleecy flocks of cloud, gone beyond the hill;",
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   {
    "text": "Through the noon-day silence, down the woods of June,",
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    "text": "Hark, a little hunter’s voice, running with a tune.",
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    "text": "“Hide and seek!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“When I speak,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“You must answer me:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Call again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Merry men,",
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   {
    "text": "“Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”",
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   {
    "text": "Now I hear his footsteps rustling in the grass:",
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   {
    "text": "Hidden in my leafy nook, shall I let him pass?",
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   {
    "text": "Just a low, soft whistle⁠—quick the hunter turns,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Leaps upon me laughing loud, rolls me in the ferns.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Hold him fast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Caught at last!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Now you’re it, you see.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Hide your eye,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Till I cry,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”",
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    "text": "Long ago he left me, long and long ago;",
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   {
    "text": "Now I wander thro’ the world, seeking high and low.",
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   {
    "text": "Hidden safe and happy, in some pleasant place⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If I could but hear his voice, soon I’d see his face!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Many a day,",
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   {
    "text": "Where can Barney be?",
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   {
    "text": "Answer, dear,",
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   {
    "text": "Don’t you hear?",
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   {
    "text": "Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!",
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   {
    "text": "Birds that every springtime sung him full of joy,",
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   {
    "text": "Flowers he loved to pick for me, mind me of my boy.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Somewhere he is waiting till my steps come nigh;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love may hide itself awhile, but love can never die.",
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   {
    "text": "Heart, be glad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The little lad",
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   {
    "text": "Will call again to thee:",
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   {
    "text": "“Father dear,",
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   {
    "text": "“Heaven is here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Coo-ee, coo-ee, coo-ee!”",
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