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 "title": "Love Came to Us in Time Gone By",
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 "poet": "James Joyce",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Chamber Music",
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 "sequence": 30,
 "container": "Chamber Music",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1907,
  "venue": "Chamber Music (1907)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chamber_Music/HPhaAAAAMAAJ",
   "https://jjq.utulsa.edu/joyce-100-objects-gas-burner/",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "Love came to us in time gone by",
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   {
    "text": "When one at twilight shyly played",
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   {
    "text": "And one in fear was standing nigh⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "For Love at first is all afraid.",
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    "text": "We were grave lovers. Love is past",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That had his sweet hours many a one;",
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   {
    "text": "Welcome to us now at the last",
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   {
    "text": "The ways that we shall go upon.",
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