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 "subtitle": "(In Memory of Theodore Thomas, 1905)",
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  "year": 1920,
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    "text": "Glory architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard,",
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    "text": "Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Look how the world with the lights that they lit is illumined and starred;",
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    "text": "Brief was the flame of their life, but the lamps of their art burn long!",
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    "text": "Where is the Master of Music, and how has he vanished away?",
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    "text": "Where is the work that he wrought with his wonderful art in the air?",
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    "text": "Gone⁠—it is gone like the glow on the cloud at the close of the day!",
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    "text": "The Master has finished his work and the glory of music is⁠—where?",
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    "text": "Once, at the wave of his wand, all the billows of musical sound",
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    "text": "Followed his will, as the sea was ruled by the prophet of old:",
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    "text": "Now that his hand is relaxed, and his rod has dropped to the ground,",
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    "text": "Silent and dark are the shores where the marvellous harmonies rolled!",
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    "text": "Nay, but not silent the hearts that were filled by that life-giving sea;",
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   {
    "text": "Deeper and purer forever the tides of their being will roll,",
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   {
    "text": "Grateful and joyful, O Master, because they have listened to thee;",
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    "text": "The glory of music endures in the depths of the human soul.",
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