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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 shall I give for thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou Pearl of greatest price?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For all the treasures I possess",
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    "text": "Would not suffice.",
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    "text": "I give my store of gold;",
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   {
    "text": "It is but earthly dross:",
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   {
    "text": "But thou wilt make me rich, beyond",
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    "text": "All fear of loss.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Mine honours I resign;",
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   {
    "text": "They are but small at best:",
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   {
    "text": "Thou like a royal star wilt shine",
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   {
    "text": "Upon my breast.",
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   {
    "text": "My worldly joys I give,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The flowers with which I played;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy beauty, far more heavenly fair,",
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    "text": "Shall never fade.",
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   {
    "text": "Dear Lord, is that enough?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nay, not a thousandth part.",
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   {
    "text": "Well, then, I have but one thing more:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Take Thou my heart.",
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