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 "title": "Ode to Psyche",
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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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   {
    "text": "O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung",
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   {
    "text": "By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,",
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   {
    "text": "And pardon that thy secrets should be sung",
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    "text": "Even into thine own soft-conched ear:",
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   {
    "text": "Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see",
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   {
    "text": "The winged Psyche with awaken’d eyes?",
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    "text": "I wander’d in a forest thoughtlessly,",
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    "text": "And, on the sudden, fainting with surprise,",
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    "text": "Saw two fair creatures, couched side by side",
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    "text": "In deepest grass, beneath the whisp’ring roof",
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   {
    "text": "Of leaves and trembled blossoms, where there ran",
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   {
    "text": "A brooklet, scarce espied:",
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   {
    "text": "’Mid hush’d, cool-rooted flowers fragrant eyed,",
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   {
    "text": "Blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian,",
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   {
    "text": "They lay calm-breathing on the bedded grass;",
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   {
    "text": "Their arms embraced, and their pinions too;",
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   {
    "text": "Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu,",
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    "text": "As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber,",
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   {
    "text": "And ready still past kisses to outnumber",
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   {
    "text": "At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:",
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   {
    "text": "The winged boy I knew;",
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   {
    "text": "But who wast thou, O happy, happy dove?",
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    "text": "His Psyche true!",
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    "text": "O latest-born and loveliest vision far",
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   {
    "text": "Of all Olympus’ faded hierarchy!",
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    "text": "Fairer than Phœbe’s sapphire-region’d star,",
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   {
    "text": "Or Vesper, amorous glow-worm of the sky;",
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   {
    "text": "Fairer than these, though temple thou hast none,",
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    "text": "Nor altar heap’d with flowers;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor virgin-choir to make delicious moan",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the midnight hours;",
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   {
    "text": "No voice, no lute, no pipe, no incense sweet",
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   {
    "text": "From chain-swung censer teeming;",
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   {
    "text": "No shrine, no grove, no oracle, no heat",
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   {
    "text": "Of pale-mouth’d prophet dreaming.",
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   {
    "text": "O brightest! though too late for antique vows,",
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   {
    "text": "Too, too late for the fond believing lyre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When holy were the haunted forest boughs,",
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   {
    "text": "Holy the air, the water, and the fire;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet even in these days so far retired",
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   {
    "text": "From happy pieties, thy lucent fans,",
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   {
    "text": "Fluttering among the faint Olympians,",
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   {
    "text": "I see, and sing, by my own eyes inspired.",
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   {
    "text": "So let me be thy choir, and make a moan",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the midnight hours;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet",
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   {
    "text": "From swinged censer teeming;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy shrine, thy grove, thy oracle, thy heat",
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   {
    "text": "Of pale-mouth’d prophet dreaming.",
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   {
    "text": "Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane",
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   {
    "text": "In some untrodden region of my mind,",
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   {
    "text": "Where branched thoughts, new-grown with pleasant pain,",
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   {
    "text": "Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far, far around shall those dark-cluster’d trees",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And there by zephyrs, streams, and birds, and bees,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The moss-lain Dryads shall be lulled to sleep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the midst of this wide quietness",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A rosy sanctuary will I dress",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With the wreath’d trellis of a working brain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With buds, and bells, and stars without a name,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With all the gardener Fancy e’er could feign,",
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   {
    "text": "Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same:",
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   {
    "text": "And there shall be for thee all soft delight",
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   {
    "text": "That shadowy thought can win,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To let the warm Love in!",
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