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 "title": "A Picture",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "She is not gone;⁠—still in our sight",
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    "text": "That dearest maid shall live,",
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    "text": "In form as true, in tints as bright,",
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    "text": "Still, still is ours the modest eye;",
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    "text": "The smile unwrought by art;",
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    "text": "The thrilling voice, I ne’er could hear",
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    "text": "But felt a joy and pain;⁠—",
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    "text": "A pride that she was ours, a fear",
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    "text": "Whether the page divine call’d forth",
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    "text": "Its clear sweet, tranquil tone,",
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    "text": "Or cheerful hymn, or seemly mirth",
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    "text": "The meek inquiry of that face,",
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    "text": "Musing on wonders found,",
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    "text": "As ’mid dim paths she sought to trace",
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    "text": "The thankful sigh that would arise,",
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    "text": "When aught her doubts removed,",
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    "text": "Full sure the explaining voice to prize,",
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    "text": "Admiring while she loved;",
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    "text": "The pensive brow, the world might see",
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    "text": "When she in crowds was found;",
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    "text": "The burst of heart, the o’erflowing glee",
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    "text": "Hope’s warmth of promise, prompt to fill",
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    "text": "The thoughts with good in store,",
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    "text": "Match’d with content’s deep stream, which still",
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    "text": "Flow’d on, when hope was o’er;",
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    "text": "That peace, which, with its own bright day,",
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    "text": "Made cheapest sights shine fair;",
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    "text": "That purest grace, which track’d its way",
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    "text": "Such was she in the sudden hour",
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    "text": "That brought her Maker’s call⁠—",
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    "text": "Proving her heart’s self-mastering power",
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    "text": "Blithely to part with all⁠—",
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    "text": "All her eye loved, all her hand press’d",
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    "text": "With keen affection’s glow,",
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    "text": "The voice of home, all pleasures best,",
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    "text": "All dearest thoughts below.",
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    "text": "From friend-lit hearth, from social board,",
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    "text": "All duteously she rose;",
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    "text": "For faith upon the Master’s word",
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    "text": "Can find a sure repose.",
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    "text": "And in her wonder up she sped,",
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    "text": "And tried relief in vain;",
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    "text": "Then laid her down upon her bed",
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    "text": "Of languor and of pain⁠—",
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    "text": "And waited till the solemn spell,",
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    "text": "(A ling’ring night and day,)",
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    "text": "Should fill its numbers, and compel",
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    "text": "Her soul to come away.",
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    "text": "Such was she then; and such she is,",
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    "text": "Shrined in each mourner’s breast;",
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    "text": "Such shall she be, and more than this,",
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    "text": "In promised glory blest;",
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    "text": "When in due lines her Saviour dear",
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    "text": "His scatter’d saints shall range,",
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    "text": "And knit in love souls parted here,",
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    "text": "Where cloud is none, nor change.",
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