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 "title": "Hymn to Apollo",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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   {
    "text": "God of the golden bow,",
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   {
    "text": "And of the golden lyre,",
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   {
    "text": "And of the golden hair,",
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   {
    "text": "And of the golden fire,",
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   {
    "text": "Charioteer",
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   {
    "text": "Of the patient year,",
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   {
    "text": "Where⁠—where slept thine ire,",
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   {
    "text": "When like a blank idiot I put on thy wreath,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy laurel, thy glory,",
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   {
    "text": "The light of thy story,",
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   {
    "text": "Or was I a worm⁠—too low crawling, for death?",
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   {
    "text": "O Delphic Apollo!",
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   {
    "text": "The Thunderer grasp’d and grasp’d,",
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   {
    "text": "The Thunderer frown’d and frown’d;",
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    "text": "The eagle’s feathery mane",
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    "text": "For wrath became stiffen’d⁠—the sound",
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    "text": "Of breeding thunder",
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    "text": "Went drowsily under,",
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    "text": "Muttering to be unbound.",
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   {
    "text": "O why didst thou pity, and for a worm",
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   {
    "text": "Why touch thy soft lute",
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   {
    "text": "Till the thunder was mute,",
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   {
    "text": "Why was not I crush’d⁠—such a pitiful germ?",
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   {
    "text": "O Delphic Apollo!",
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   {
    "text": "The Pleiades were up,",
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    "text": "Watching the silent air;",
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   {
    "text": "The seeds and roots in the Earth",
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    "text": "Were swelling for summer fare;",
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   {
    "text": "The Ocean, its neighbour,",
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   {
    "text": "Was at its old labour,",
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   {
    "text": "When, who⁠—who did dare",
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   {
    "text": "To tie, like a madman, thy plant round his brow,",
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   {
    "text": "And grin and look proudly,",
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   {
    "text": "And blaspheme so loudly,",
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   {
    "text": "And live for that honour, to stoop to thee now?",
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   {
    "text": "O Delphic Apollo?",
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