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 "title": "Song",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "The Stranger Lighted from His Steed",
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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 "sequence": null,
 "container": "Extracts from an Opera",
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 "first_published": {
  "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://archive.org/details/lifelettersliter02keat"
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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": {
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-19"
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    "text": "The stranger lighted from his steed,",
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   {
    "text": "And ere he spake a word,",
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   {
    "text": "He seiz’d my lady’s lily hand,",
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   {
    "text": "And kiss’d it all unheard.",
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    "text": "The stranger walk’d into the hall,",
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    "text": "And ere he spake a word,",
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    "text": "He kiss’d my lady’s cherry lips,",
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   {
    "text": "And kiss’d ’em all unheard.",
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   {
    "text": "The stranger walk’d into the bower,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But my lady first did go⁠,⁠—",
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    "text": "Ay hand in hand into the bower,",
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   {
    "text": "Where my Lord’s roses blow.",
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    "text": "My lady’s maid had a silken scarf,",
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   {
    "text": "And a golden ring had she,",
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   {
    "text": "And a kiss from the stranger, as off he went",
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    "text": "Again on his palfrey.",
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