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 "title": "Ode on a Grecian Urn",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "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)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sylvan historian, who canst thus express",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of deities or mortals, or of both,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What men or gods are these? what maidens loth?",
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   {
    "text": "What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?",
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   {
    "text": "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard",
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   {
    "text": "Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave",
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   {
    "text": "Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though winning near the goal⁠—yet, do not grieve;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, happy melodist, unwearied,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For ever piping songs for ever new:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More happy love! more happy, happy love!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For ever warm and still to be enjoy’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For ever panting, and for ever young;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All breathing human passion far above,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Who are these coming to the sacrifice?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To what green altar, O mysterious priest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What little town by river or sea shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,",
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   {
    "text": "Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, little town, thy streets for evermore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will silent be; and not a soul to tell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why thou art desolate, can e’er return.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O Attic shade! Fair attitude! with brede",
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   {
    "text": "Of marble men and maidens overwrought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With forest branches and the trodden weed;",
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   {
    "text": "Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When old age shall this generation waste,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”⁠—that is all",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.",
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