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 "title": "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1820,
  "venue": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)",
  "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": "Souls of Poets dead and gone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What Elysium have ye known,",
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   {
    "text": "Happy field or mossy cavern,",
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   {
    "text": "Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?",
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   {
    "text": "Have ye tippled drink more fine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than mine host’s Canary wine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or are fruits of Paradise",
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   {
    "text": "Sweeter than those dainty pies",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of venison? O generous food!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drest as though bold Robin Hood",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Would, with his maid Marian,",
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   {
    "text": "Sup and bowse from horn and can.",
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   {
    "text": "I have heard that on a day",
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   {
    "text": "Mine host’s sign-board flew away,",
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   {
    "text": "Nobody knew whither, till",
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   {
    "text": "An astrologer’s old quill",
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   {
    "text": "To a sheepskin gave the story,",
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   {
    "text": "Said he saw you in your glory,",
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    "text": "Underneath a new-old sign",
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    "text": "Sipping beverage divine,",
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    "text": "And pledging with contented smack",
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   {
    "text": "The Mermaid in the Zodiac.",
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   {
    "text": "Souls of Poets dead and gone,",
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   {
    "text": "What Elysium have ye known,",
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   {
    "text": "Happy field or mossy cavern,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?",
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