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 "title": "Deep in the Quiet Wood",
 "poet": "James Weldon Johnson",
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  "year": 1917,
  "venue": "Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917)",
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   {
    "text": "Are you bowed down in heart?",
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   {
    "text": "Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?",
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   {
    "text": "Then come away, come to the peaceful wood,",
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   {
    "text": "Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now,",
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   {
    "text": "From out the palpitating solitude",
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   {
    "text": "Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains?",
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   {
    "text": "They are above, around, within you, everywhere.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Silently listen! Clear, and still more clear, they come.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They bubble up in rippling notes, and swell in singing tones.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now let your soul run the whole gamut of the wondrous scale",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until, responsive to the tonic chord,",
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   {
    "text": "It touches the diapason of God’s grand cathedral organ,",
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   {
    "text": "Filling earth for you with heavenly peace",
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   {
    "text": "And holy harmonies.",
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