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 "id": "john-keats/robin-hood",
 "title": "Robin Hood",
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 "subtitle": "To a Friend",
 "poet": "John Keats",
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    "text": "No! those days are gone away,",
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    "text": "And their hours are old and gray,",
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    "text": "And their minutes buried all",
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    "text": "Under the down-trodden pall",
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    "text": "Of the leaves of many years:",
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    "text": "Many times have Winter’s shears,",
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    "text": "Frozen North, and chilling East,",
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    "text": "Sounded tempests to the feast",
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    "text": "Of the forest’s whispering fleeces,",
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    "text": "Since men knew nor rent nor leases.",
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    "text": "No, the bugle sounds no more,",
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    "text": "And the twanging bow no more;",
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    "text": "Silent is the ivory shrill",
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    "text": "Past the heath and up the hill;",
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    "text": "There is no mid-forest laugh,",
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    "text": "Where lone Echo gives the half",
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    "text": "To some wight, amaz’d to hear",
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    "text": "Jesting, deep in forest drear.",
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    "text": "On the fairest time of June",
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    "text": "You may go, with sun or moon,",
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    "text": "Or the seven stars to light you,",
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    "text": "Or the polar ray to right you;",
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    "text": "But you never may behold",
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    "text": "Little John, or Robin bold;",
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    "text": "Never one, of all the clan,",
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    "text": "Thrumming on an empty can",
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    "text": "Some old hunting ditty, while",
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    "text": "He doth his green way beguile",
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    "text": "To fair hostess Merriment,",
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    "text": "Down beside the pasture Trent;",
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    "text": "For he left the merry tale,",
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    "text": "Gone, the merry morris din;",
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    "text": "Gone, the song of Gamelyn;",
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    "text": "Gone, the tough-belted outlaw",
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    "text": "Idling in the “grenè shawe;”",
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    "text": "All are gone away and past!",
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    "text": "And if Robin should be cast",
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    "text": "Sudden from his turfèd grave,",
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    "text": "And if Marian should have",
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    "text": "Once again her forest days,",
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    "text": "She would weep, and he would craze:",
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    "text": "He would swear, for all his oaks,",
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    "text": "Fall’n beneath the dock-yard strokes,",
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    "text": "Have rotted on the briny seas;",
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    "text": "She would weep that her wild bees",
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    "text": "Sang not to her⁠—strange! that honey",
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    "text": "Can’t be got without hard money!",
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    "text": "So it is; yet let us sing",
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    "text": "Honour to the old bow-string!",
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    "text": "Honour to the bugle horn!",
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    "text": "Honour to the woods unshorn!",
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    "text": "Honour to the Lincoln green!",
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    "text": "Honour to the archer keen!",
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    "text": "Honour to tight little John,",
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    "text": "And the horse he rode upon!",
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    "text": "Honour to bold Robin Hood,",
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    "text": "Sleeping in the underwood!",
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    "text": "Honour to Maid Marian,",
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    "text": "And to all the Sherwood clan!",
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    "text": "Though their days have hurried by,",
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    "text": "Let us two a burden try.",
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