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 "id": "john-keats/faery-songs",
 "title": "Faery Songs",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1848,
  "venue": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Shed no tear! O shed no tear!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The flower will bloom another year.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Weep no more! O weep no more!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dry your eyes! O dry your eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For I was taught in Paradise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To ease my breast of melodies⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shed no tear.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Overhead! look overhead",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Mong the blossoms white and red⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Look up, look up⁠—I flutter now",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On this flush pomegranate bough.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See me! ’tis this silvery bill",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ever cures the good man’s ill.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shed no tear! O shed no tear!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The flower will bloom another year.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adieu, Adieu⁠—I fly, adieu,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I vanish in the heaven’s blue⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adieu, Adieu!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That I must chant thy lady’s dirge,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And death to this fair haunt of spring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of melody, and streams of flowery verge,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Poor silver-wing! ah! woe is me!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That I must see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These blossoms snow upon thy lady’s pall!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Go, pretty page! and in her ear",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whisper that the hour is near!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Softly tell her not to fear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Such calm favonian burial!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Go, pretty page! and soothly tell,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The blossoms hang by a melting spell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And fall they must, ere a star wink thrice",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon her closed eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That now in vain are weeping their last tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At sweet life leaving, and those arbours green,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rich dowry from the Spirit of the Spheres,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alas! poor Queen!",
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   }
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