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 "id": "john-keats/chorus-of-fairies",
 "title": "Chorus of Fairies",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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  "year": 1848,
  "venue": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Happy, happy glowing fire!",
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   {
    "text": "Fragrant air! delicious light!",
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   {
    "text": "Let me to my glooms retire!",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I to green-weed rivers bright!",
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    "text": "Happy, happy glowing fire!",
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   {
    "text": "Dazzling bowers of soft retire,",
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   {
    "text": "Ever let my nourish’d wing,",
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   {
    "text": "Like a bat’s, still wandering,",
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   {
    "text": "Faintly fan your fiery spaces,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Spirit sole in deadly places.",
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   {
    "text": "In unhaunted roar and blaze,",
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   {
    "text": "Open eyes that never daze,",
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   {
    "text": "Let me see the myriad shapes",
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    "text": "Of men, and beasts, and fish, and apes,",
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    "text": "Portray’d in many a fiery den,",
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    "text": "And wrought by spumy bitumen.",
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    "text": "On the deep intenser roof,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Arched every way, aloof,",
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   {
    "text": "Let me breathe upon my skies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And anger their live tapestries;",
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   {
    "text": "Free from cold, and every care,",
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   {
    "text": "Of chilly rain, and shivering air.",
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    "text": "Spright of Fire! away! away!",
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   {
    "text": "Or your very roundelay",
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   {
    "text": "Will sear my plumage newly budded",
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    "text": "From its quilled sheath, and studded",
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   {
    "text": "With the self-same dews that fell",
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   {
    "text": "On the May-grown Asphodel.",
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   {
    "text": "Spright of Fire⁠—away! away!",
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    "text": "Spright of Fire⁠—away! away!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Zephyr, blue-eyed Faery, turn,",
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   {
    "text": "And see my cool sedge-shaded urn,",
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   {
    "text": "Where it rests its mossy brim",
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   {
    "text": "’Mid water-mint and cresses dim;",
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   {
    "text": "And the flowers, in sweet troubles,",
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   {
    "text": "Lift their eyes above the bubbles,",
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   {
    "text": "Like our Queen, when she would please",
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   {
    "text": "To sleep, and Oberon will tease.",
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   {
    "text": "Love me, blue-eyed Faery! true,",
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   {
    "text": "Soothly I am sick for you.",
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    "text": "Gentle Breama! by the first",
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   {
    "text": "Violet young nature nurst,",
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   {
    "text": "I will bathe myself with thee,",
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   {
    "text": "So you sometime follow me",
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   {
    "text": "To my home, far, far, in west,",
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   {
    "text": "Far beyond the search and quest",
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   {
    "text": "Of the golden-browed sun.",
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   {
    "text": "Come with me, o’er tops of trees,",
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   {
    "text": "To my fragrant palaces,",
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   {
    "text": "Where they ever floating are",
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    "text": "Beneath the cherish of a star",
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   {
    "text": "Call’d Vesper, who with silver veil",
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   {
    "text": "Ever hides his brilliance pale,",
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   {
    "text": "Ever gently-drowsed doth keep",
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   {
    "text": "Twilight for the Fays to sleep.",
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   {
    "text": "Fear not that your watery hair",
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   {
    "text": "Will thirst in drouthy ringlets there;",
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   {
    "text": "Clouds of stored summer rains",
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   {
    "text": "Thou shalt taste, before the stains",
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   {
    "text": "Of the mountain soil they take,",
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   {
    "text": "And too unlucent for thee make.",
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   {
    "text": "I love thee, crystal Faery, true!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sooth I am as sick for you!",
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    "text": "Out, ye aguish Faeries, out!",
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   {
    "text": "Chilly lovers, what a rout",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Keep ye with your frozen breath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Colder than the mortal death.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adder-eyed Dusketha, speak,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall we leave them, and go seek",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the earth’s wide entrails old",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Couches warm as theirs is cold?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O for a fiery gloom and thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Dusketha, so enchantingly",
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   {
    "text": "Freckle-wing’d and lizard-sided!",
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    "text": "By thee, Spright, will I be guided!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I care not for cold or heat;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Frost and flame, or sparks, or sleet,",
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   {
    "text": "To my essence are the same;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But I honour more the flame.",
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   {
    "text": "Spright of fire, I follow thee",
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   {
    "text": "Wheresoever it may be;",
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   {
    "text": "To the torrid spouts and fountains,",
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   {
    "text": "Underneath earth-quaked mountains;",
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   {
    "text": "Or, at thy supreme desire,",
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   {
    "text": "Touch the very pulse of fire",
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    "text": "With my bare unlidded eyes.",
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    "text": "Sweet Dusketha! paradise!",
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   {
    "text": "Off, ye icy Spirits, fly!",
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   {
    "text": "Frosty creatures of the sky!",
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    "text": "Breathe upon them, fiery Spright!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Away! away to our delight!",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Go, feed on icicles, while we",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bedded in tongued flames will be.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Lead me to these fev’rous glooms,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Spright of Fire!",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "Me to the blooms,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Blue eyed Zephyr of those flowers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far in the west where the May-cloud lowers:",
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   {
    "text": "And the beams of still Vesper, where winds are all whist,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are shed thro’ the rain and the milder mist,",
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   {
    "text": "And twilight your floating bowers.",
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   "what": "defects.py sections flags this record on Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, Salamander, Zephyr, Dusketha, and Breama — the dramatis personae and speech titles of one verse drama. Standard Ebooks marks the article z3998:drama. the 1900 Houghton Mifflin Cabinet Edition prints it as one poem.",
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