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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": "O Music hast thou only heard",
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   {
    "text": "The laughing river, the singing bird,",
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   {
    "text": "The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Nothing but Nature’s melodies?",
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   {
    "text": "Nay, thou hearest all her tones,",
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   {
    "text": "As a Queen must hear!",
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    "text": "Sounds of wrath and fear,",
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    "text": "Mutterings, shouts, and moans,",
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    "text": "Madness, tumult, and despair⁠—",
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    "text": "All she has that shakes the air",
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    "text": "With voices fierce and wild!",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art a Queen and not a dreaming child⁠—",
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    "text": "Put on thy crown and let us hear thee reign",
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   {
    "text": "Triumphant in a world of storm and strain!",
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    "text": "Echo the long-drawn sighs",
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    "text": "Of the mounting wind in the pines;",
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    "text": "And the sobs of the mounting waves that rise",
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    "text": "In the dark of the troubled deep",
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    "text": "To break on the beach in fiery lines.",
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   {
    "text": "Echo the far-off roll of thunder,",
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    "text": "Rumbling loud",
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   {
    "text": "And ever louder, under",
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   {
    "text": "The blue-black curtain of cloud,",
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   {
    "text": "Where the lightning serpents gleam.",
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    "text": "Echo the moaning",
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    "text": "Of the forest in its sleep",
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    "text": "Like a giant groaning",
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    "text": "In the torment of a dream.",
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    "text": "Now an interval of quiet",
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    "text": "For a moment holds the air",
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    "text": "In the breathless hush",
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    "text": "Of a silent prayer.",
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    "text": "Then the sudden rush",
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    "text": "Of the rain, and the riot",
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   {
    "text": "Of the shrieking, tearing gale",
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   {
    "text": "Breaks loose in the night,",
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   {
    "text": "With a fusillade of hail!",
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   {
    "text": "Hear the forest fight,",
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    "text": "With its tossing arms that crack and clash",
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    "text": "In the thunder’s cannonade,",
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    "text": "While the lightning’s forked flash",
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    "text": "Brings the old hero-trees to the ground with a crash!",
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   {
    "text": "Hear the breakers’ deepening roar,",
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    "text": "Driven like a herd of cattle",
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    "text": "In the wild stampede of battle,",
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   {
    "text": "Trampling, trampling, trampling, to overwhelm the shore!",
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    "text": "Is it the end of all?",
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   {
    "text": "Will the land crumble and fall?",
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   {
    "text": "Nay, for a voice replies",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the hidden skies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Thus far, O sea, shalt thou go,",
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   {
    "text": "So long, O wind, shalt thou blow:",
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   {
    "text": "Return to your bounds and cease,",
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   {
    "text": "And let the earth have peace!”",
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    "text": "O Music, lead the way⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The stormy night is past,",
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   {
    "text": "Lift up our hearts to greet the day,",
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   {
    "text": "And the joy of things that last.",
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    "text": "The dissonance and pain",
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   {
    "text": "That mortals must endure,",
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   {
    "text": "Are changed in thine immortal strain",
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   {
    "text": "To something great and pure.",
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    "text": "True love will conquer strife,",
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   {
    "text": "And strength from conflict flows,",
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   {
    "text": "For discord is the thorn of life",
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   {
    "text": "And harmony the rose.",
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