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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 wonderful! How liquid clear",
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   {
    "text": "The molten gold of that ethereal tone,",
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   {
    "text": "Floating and falling through the wood alone,",
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   {
    "text": "A hermit-hymn poured out for God to hear!",
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   {
    "text": "O holy, holy, holy! Hyaline,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long light, low light, glory of eventide!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love far away, far up⁠—up⁠—love divine!",
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   {
    "text": "Little love, too, for ever, ever near,",
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   {
    "text": "Warm love, earth love, tender love of mine,",
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   {
    "text": "In the leafy dark where you hide,",
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    "text": "You are mine⁠—mine⁠—mine!",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, my belovèd, do you feel with me",
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   {
    "text": "The hidden virtue of that melody,",
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   {
    "text": "The rapture and the purity of love,",
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   {
    "text": "The heavenly joy that can not find the word?",
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   {
    "text": "Then, while we wait again to hear the bird,",
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   {
    "text": "Come very near to me, and do not move⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Now, hermit of the woodland, fill anew",
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   {
    "text": "The cool, green cup of air with harmony,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And we will drink the wine of love with you.",
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