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 "title": "The Angler’s Reveille",
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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": "What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of night,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the little watchman-stars have fallen asleep in light,",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis then a merry wind awakes, and runs from tree to tree,",
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    "text": "And borrows words from all the birds to sound the reveille.",
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    "text": "This is the carol the Robin throws",
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   {
    "text": "Over the edge of the valley;",
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   {
    "text": "Listen how boldly it flows,",
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   {
    "text": "Sally on sally:",
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   {
    "text": "Tirra-lirra,",
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   {
    "text": "Early morn,",
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   {
    "text": "New born!",
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    "text": "Day is near,",
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    "text": "Clear, clear.",
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    "text": "Down the river",
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    "text": "All a-quiver,",
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   {
    "text": "Fish are breaking;",
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   {
    "text": "Time for waking,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tup, tup, tup!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Do you hear?",
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   {
    "text": "All clear⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Wake up!",
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   {
    "text": "The phantom flood of dreams has ebbed and vanished with the dark,",
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   {
    "text": "And like a dove the heart forsakes the prison of the ark;",
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   {
    "text": "Now forth she fares thro’ friendly woods and diamond-fields of dew,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While every voice cries out “Rejoice!” as if the world were new.",
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    "text": "This is the ballad the Bluebird sings,",
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    "text": "Unto his mate replying,",
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   {
    "text": "Shaking the tune from his wings",
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   {
    "text": "While he is flying:",
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   {
    "text": "Surely, surely, surely,",
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   {
    "text": "Life is dear",
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   {
    "text": "Even here.",
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   {
    "text": "Blue above,",
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   {
    "text": "You to love,",
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   {
    "text": "Purely, purely, purely.",
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    "text": "There’s wild azalea on the hill, and iris down the dell,",
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   {
    "text": "And just one spray of lilac still abloom beside the well;",
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   {
    "text": "The columbine adorns the rocks, the laurel buds grow pink,",
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    "text": "Along the stream white arums gleam, and violets bend to drink.",
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    "text": "This is the song of the Yellow-throat,",
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   {
    "text": "Fluttering gaily beside you;",
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   {
    "text": "Hear how each voluble note",
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   {
    "text": "Offers to guide you:",
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   {
    "text": "Which way, sir?",
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   {
    "text": "I say, sir,",
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   {
    "text": "Let me teach you,",
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   {
    "text": "I beseech you!",
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   {
    "text": "Are you wishing",
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   {
    "text": "Jolly fishing?",
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   {
    "text": "This way, sir!",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll teach you.",
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    "text": "Then come, my friend, forget your foes and leave your fears behind,",
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   {
    "text": "And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;",
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   {
    "text": "For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the day your heart will say, “ ’Tis luck enough to live.”",
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    "text": "This is the song the Brown Thrush flings",
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   {
    "text": "Out of his thicket of roses;",
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   {
    "text": "Hark how it bubbles and rings,",
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   {
    "text": "Mark how it closes:",
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   {
    "text": "Luck, luck,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What luck?",
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   {
    "text": "Good enough for me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I’m alive, you see!",
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   {
    "text": "Sun shining,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No repining;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Never borrow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Idle sorrow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drop it!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cover it up!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hold your cup!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Joy will fill it,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Don’t spill it,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Steady, be ready,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Good luck!",
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