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 "title": "The Trance of Time",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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 "epigraph": "“Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, / Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum / Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!”",
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    "text": "In childhood, when with eager eyes",
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   {
    "text": "The season-measured year I view’d,",
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    "text": "All, garb’d in fairy guise,",
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    "text": "Pledged constancy of good.",
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    "text": "Spring sang of heaven; the summer flowers",
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   {
    "text": "Bade me gaze on, and did not fade;",
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   {
    "text": "Even suns o’er autumn’s bowers",
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   {
    "text": "Heard my strong wish, and stay’d.",
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  ],
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    "text": "They came and went, the short-lived four;",
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    "text": "Yet, as their varying dance they wove,",
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   {
    "text": "To my young heart each bore",
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    "text": "Its own sure claim of love.",
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    "text": "Far different now;⁠—the whirling year",
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    "text": "Vainly my dizzy eyes pursue;",
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    "text": "And its fair tints appear",
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    "text": "All blent in one dusk hue.",
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    "text": "Why dwell on rich autumnal lights,",
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   {
    "text": "Spring-time, or winter’s social ring?",
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   {
    "text": "Long days are fire-side nights,",
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   {
    "text": "Brown autumn is fresh spring.",
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   {
    "text": "Then what this world to thee, my heart?",
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   {
    "text": "Its gifts nor feed thee nor can bless.",
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    "text": "Thou hast no owner’s part",
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    "text": "In all its fleetingness.",
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    "text": "The flame, the storm, the quaking ground,",
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   {
    "text": "Earth’s joy, earth’s terror, nought is thine,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou must but hear the sound",
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   {
    "text": "Of the still voice divine.",
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   {
    "text": "O priceless art! O princely state!",
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   {
    "text": "E’en while by sense of change opprest,",
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   {
    "text": "Within to antedate",
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   {
    "text": "Heaven’s Age of fearless rest.",
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