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 "id": "john-keats/calidore",
 "title": "Calidore",
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 "subtitle": "A Fragment",
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1817,
  "venue": "Poems (1817)",
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    "text": "Young Calidore is paddling o’er the lake;",
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    "text": "His healthful spirit eager and awake",
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    "text": "To feel the beauty of a silent eve,",
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    "text": "Which seem’d full loth this happy world to leave;",
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    "text": "The light dwelt o’er the scene so lingeringly.",
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    "text": "He bares his forehead to the cool blue sky,",
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    "text": "And smiles at the far clearness all around,",
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    "text": "Until his heart is well nigh over wound",
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    "text": "And turns for calmness to the pleasant green",
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    "text": "Of easy slopes, and shadowy trees that lean",
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    "text": "So elegantly o’er the waters’ brim",
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    "text": "And show their blossoms trim.",
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    "text": "Scarce can his clear and nimble eyesight follow",
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    "text": "The freaks and dartings of the black-wing’d swallow,",
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    "text": "Delighting much, to see it half at rest,",
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    "text": "Dip so refreshingly its wings, and breast",
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    "text": "’Gainst the smooth surface, and to mark anon,",
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    "text": "The widening circles into nothing gone.",
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    "text": "And now the sharp keel of his little boat",
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    "text": "Comes up with ripple, and with easy float,",
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    "text": "And glides into a bed of water-lilies:",
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    "text": "Broad-leav’d are they, and their white canopies",
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    "text": "Are upward turn’d to catch the heavens’ dew.",
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    "text": "Near to a little island’s point they grew;",
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    "text": "Whence Calidore might have the goodliest view",
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    "text": "Of this sweet spot of earth. The bowery shore",
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    "text": "Went off in gentle windings to the hoar",
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    "text": "And light blue mountains: but no breathing man",
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    "text": "With a warm heart, and eye prepared to scan",
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    "text": "Nature’s clear beauty, could pass lightly by",
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    "text": "Objects that look’d out so invitingly",
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    "text": "On either side. These, gentle Calidore",
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    "text": "Greeted, as he had known them long before.",
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    "text": "The sidelong view of swelling leafiness,",
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    "text": "Which the glad setting sun in gold doth dress;",
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    "text": "Whence, ever and anon, the jay outsprings,",
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    "text": "And scales upon the beauty of its wings.",
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    "text": "The lonely turret, shatter’d, and outworn,",
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    "text": "Stands venerably proud; too proud to mourn",
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    "text": "Its long lost grandeur: fir-trees grow around,",
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    "text": "Aye dropping their hard fruit upon the ground.",
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    "text": "The little chapel, with the cross above,",
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    "text": "Upholding wreaths of ivy; the white dove,",
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    "text": "That on the windows spreads his feathers light,",
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    "text": "And seems from purple clouds to wing its flight.",
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    "text": "Green tufted islands casting their soft shades",
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    "text": "Across the lake; sequester’d leafy glades,",
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    "text": "That through the dimness of their twilight show",
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    "text": "Large dock-leaves, spiral foxgloves, or the glow",
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    "text": "Of the cat’s wild eyes, or the silvery stems",
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    "text": "Of delicate birch-trees, or long grass which hems",
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    "text": "A little brook. The youth had long been viewing",
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    "text": "These pleasant things, and heaven was bedewing",
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    "text": "The mountain flowers, when his glad senses caught",
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    "text": "A trumpet’s silver voice. Ah! it was fraught",
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    "text": "With many joys for him: the warder’s ken",
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    "text": "Had found white coursers prancing in the glen:",
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    "text": "Friends very dear to him he soon will see;",
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    "text": "So pushes off his boat most eagerly,",
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    "text": "And soon upon the lake he skims along,",
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    "text": "Deaf to the nightingale’s first under-song;",
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    "text": "Nor minds he the white swans that dream so sweetly:",
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    "text": "His spirit flies before him so completely.",
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    "text": "And now he turns a jutting point of land,",
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    "text": "Whence may be seen the castle gloomy, and grand:",
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    "text": "Nor will a bee buzz round two swelling peaches,",
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    "text": "Before the point of his light shallop reaches",
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    "text": "Those marble steps that through the water dip:",
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    "text": "Now over them he goes with hasty trip,",
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    "text": "And scarcely stays to ope the folding doors:",
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    "text": "Anon he leaps along the oaken floors",
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    "text": "Of halls and corridors.",
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    "text": "Delicious sounds! those little bright-eyed things",
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    "text": "That float about the air on azure wings,",
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    "text": "Had been less heartfelt by him than the clang",
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    "text": "Of clattering hoofs; into the court he sprang,",
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    "text": "Just as two noble steeds, and palfreys twain,",
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    "text": "Were slanting out their necks with loosen’d rein;",
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    "text": "While from beneath the threat’ning portcullis",
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    "text": "They brought their happy burthens. What a kiss,",
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    "text": "What gentle squeeze he gave each lady’s hand!",
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    "text": "How tremblingly their delicate ankles spann’d!",
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    "text": "Into how sweet a trance his soul was gone,",
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    "text": "While whisperings of affection",
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    "text": "Made him delay to let their tender feet",
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    "text": "Come to the earth; with an incline so sweet",
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    "text": "From their low palfreys o’er his neck they bent:",
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    "text": "And whether there were tears of languishment,",
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    "text": "Or that the evening dew had pearl’d their tresses,",
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    "text": "He feels a moisture on his cheek, and blesses",
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    "text": "With lips that tremble, and with glistening eye,",
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    "text": "All the soft luxury",
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    "text": "That nestled in his arms. A dimpled hand,",
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    "text": "Fair as some wonder out of fairy land,",
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    "text": "Hung from his shoulder like the drooping flowers",
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    "text": "Of whitest Cassia, fresh from summer showers:",
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    "text": "And this he fondled with his happy cheek,",
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    "text": "As if for joy he would no further seek;",
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    "text": "When the kind voice of good Sir Clerimond",
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    "text": "Came to his ear, like something from beyond",
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    "text": "His present being: so he gently drew",
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    "text": "His warm arms, thrilling now with pulses new,",
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    "text": "From their sweet thrall, and forward gently bending,",
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    "text": "Thank’d Heaven that his joy was never ending;",
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    "text": "While ’gainst his forehead he devoutly press’d",
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    "text": "A hand Heaven made to succour the distress’d;",
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    "text": "A hand that from the world’s bleak promontory",
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    "text": "Had lifted Calidore for deeds of glory.",
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    "text": "Amid the pages, and the torches’ glare,",
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    "text": "There stood a knight, patting the flowing hair",
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    "text": "Of his proud horse’s mane: he was withal",
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    "text": "A man of elegance, and stature tall:",
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    "text": "So that the waving of his plumes would be",
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    "text": "High as the berries of a wild ash-tree,",
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    "text": "Or as the wingèd cap of Mercury.",
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    "text": "His armour was so dexterously wrought",
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    "text": "In shape, that sure no living man had thought",
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    "text": "It hard, and heavy steel: but that indeed",
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    "text": "It was some glorious form, some splendid weed,",
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    "text": "In which a spirit new come from the skies",
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    "text": "Might live, and show itself to human eyes.",
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    "text": "’Tis the far-fam’d, the brave Sir Gondibert,",
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    "text": "Said the good man to Calidore alert;",
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    "text": "While the young warrior with a step of grace",
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    "text": "Came up,⁠—a courtly smile upon his face,",
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    "text": "And mailèd hand held out, ready to greet",
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    "text": "The large-eyed wonder, and ambitious heat",
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    "text": "Of the aspiring boy; who as he led",
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    "text": "Those smiling ladies, often turned his head",
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    "text": "To admire the visor arched so gracefully",
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    "text": "Over a knightly brow; while they went by",
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    "text": "The lamps that from the high-roof’d hall were pendent,",
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    "text": "And gave the steel a shining quite transcendent.",
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    "text": "Soon in a pleasant chamber they are seated;",
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   {
    "text": "The sweet-lipp’d ladies have already greeted",
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    "text": "All the green leaves that round the window clamber,",
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    "text": "To show their purple stars, and bells of amber.",
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    "text": "Sir Gondibert has doff’d his shining steel,",
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    "text": "Gladdening in the free, and airy feel",
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    "text": "Of a light mantle; and while Clerimond",
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    "text": "Is looking round about him with a fond",
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    "text": "And placid eye, young Calidore is burning",
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    "text": "To hear of knightly deeds, and gallant spurning",
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    "text": "Of all unworthiness; and how the strong of arm",
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    "text": "Kept off dismay, and terror, and alarm",
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    "text": "From lovely woman; while brimful of this,",
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    "text": "He gave each damsel’s hand so warm a kiss,",
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    "text": "And had such manly ardour in his eye,",
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    "text": "That each at other look’d half-staringly;",
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    "text": "And then their features started into smiles,",
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    "text": "Sweet as blue heavens o’er enchanted isles.",
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    "text": "Softly the breezes from the forest came,",
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    "text": "Softly they blew aside the taper’s flame;",
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    "text": "Clear was the song from Philomel’s far bower;",
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    "text": "Grateful the incense from the lime-tree flower;",
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    "text": "Mysterious, wild, the far heard trumpet’s tone;",
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    "text": "Lovely the moon in ether, all alone:",
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    "text": "Sweet too the converse of these happy mortals,",
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    "text": "As that of busy spirits when the portals",
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    "text": "Are closing in the west; or that soft humming",
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    "text": "We hear around when Hesperus is coming.",
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   {
    "text": "Sweet be their sleep.⁠ ⁠…",
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   "raised": "2026-08-19",
   "what": "defects.py sections flags this record on A FRAGMENT and an OCR running head (CALIDORE). A Fragment is already subtitle. the 1900 Houghton Mifflin Cabinet Edition lists Calidore as one poem.",
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