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 "title": "Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night",
 "ordinal": "XXVI",
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 "poet": "James Joyce",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Chamber Music",
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 "sequence": 26,
 "container": "Chamber Music",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1907,
  "venue": "Chamber Music (1907)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Thou leanest to the shell of night,",
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   {
    "text": "Dear lady, a divining ear.",
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   {
    "text": "In that soft choiring of delight",
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   {
    "text": "What sound hath made thy heart to fear?",
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   {
    "text": "Seemed it of rivers rushing forth",
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   {
    "text": "From the grey deserts of the north?",
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   {
    "text": "That mood of thine, O timorous,",
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   {
    "text": "Is his, if thou but scan it well,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who a mad tale bequeaths to us",
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    "text": "At ghosting hour conjurable⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And all for some strange name he read",
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    "text": "In Purchas or in Holinshed.",
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