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 "title": "The Name of France",
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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": "Give us a name to fill the mind",
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   {
    "text": "With the shining thoughts that lead mankind,",
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    "text": "The glory of learning, the joy of art⁠—",
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    "text": "A name that tells of a splendid part",
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   {
    "text": "In the long, long toil and the strenuous fight",
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    "text": "Of the human race to win its way",
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    "text": "From the feudal darkness into the day",
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    "text": "Of Freedom, Brotherhood, Equal Right⁠—",
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    "text": "A name like a star, a name of light.",
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   {
    "text": "I give you France!",
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    "text": "Give us a name to stir the blood",
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    "text": "With a warmer glow and a swifter flood,",
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    "text": "At the touch of a courage that conquers fear⁠—",
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    "text": "A name like the sound of a trumpet, clear,",
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    "text": "And silver-sweet, and iron-strong,",
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    "text": "That calls three million men to their feet,",
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    "text": "Ready to march, and steady to meet",
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    "text": "The foes who threaten that name with wrong⁠—",
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    "text": "A name that rings like a battle-song.",
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   {
    "text": "I give you France!",
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    "text": "Give us a name to move the heart",
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    "text": "With the strength that noble griefs impart,",
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    "text": "A name that speaks of the blood outpoured",
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    "text": "To save mankind from the sway of the sword⁠—",
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    "text": "A name that calls on the world to share",
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    "text": "In the burden of sacrificial strife",
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    "text": "When the cause at stake is the world’s free life",
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    "text": "And the rule of the people everywhere⁠—",
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    "text": "A name like a vow, a name like a prayer.",
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   {
    "text": "I give you France!",
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