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 "title": "The Month of Mary",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "Green are the leaves, and sweet the flowers,",
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    "text": "And rich the hues of May;",
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    "text": "We see them in the gardens round,",
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    "text": "And market-paniers gay:",
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    "text": "And e’en among our streets, and lanes,",
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    "text": "O Mother maid, be thou our aid,",
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   {
    "text": "Now in the opening year;",
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    "text": "Lest sights of earth to sin give birth,",
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    "text": "And bring the tempter near.",
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    "text": "Green is the grass, but wait awhile,",
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    "text": "’Twill grow, and then will wither;",
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    "text": "The flowrets, brightly as they smile,",
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    "text": "Shall perish altogether:",
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    "text": "The merry sun, you sure would say,",
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    "text": "It ne’er could set in gloom;",
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    "text": "But earth’s best joys have all an end,",
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    "text": "But Mother maid, thou dost not fade;",
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    "text": "With stars above thy brow,",
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    "text": "And the pale moon beneath thy feet,",
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    "text": "For ever throned art thou.",
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    "text": "The green green grass, the glittering grove,",
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    "text": "The heaven’s majestic dome,",
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    "text": "They image forth a tenderer bower,",
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    "text": "A more refulgent home;",
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    "text": "They tell us of that Paradise",
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    "text": "Of everlasting rest,",
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    "text": "And that high Tree, all flowers and fruit,",
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    "text": "O Mary, pure and beautiful,",
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    "text": "Thou art the Queen of May;",
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    "text": "Our garlands wear about thy hair,",
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    "text": "And they will ne’er decay.",
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