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 "title": "Song",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "I Had a Dove",
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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  "year": 1848,
  "venue": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005261190"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "I had a dove and the sweet dove died;",
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   {
    "text": "And I have thought it died of grieving:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet little red feet! why should you die⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You lived alone in the forest-tree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I kiss’d you oft and gave you white peas;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?",
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