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  "venue": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush, my dear!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the house is asleep, but we know very well",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That the jealous, the jealous old bald-pate may hear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though you’ve padded his night-cap⁠—O sweet Isabel!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though your feet are more light than a Faery’s feet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who dances on bubbles where brooklets meet⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hush, hush! soft tiptoe! hush, hush, my dear!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For less than a nothing the jealous can hear.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "No leaf doth tremble, no ripple is there",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On the river,⁠—all’s still, and the night’s sleepy eye",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Closes up, and forgets all its Lethean care,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Charm’d to death by the drone of the humming May-fly;",
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   {
    "text": "And the Moon, whether prudish or complaisant,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Has fled to her bower, well knowing I want",
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   {
    "text": "No light in the dusk, no torch in the gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But my Isabel’s eyes, and her lips pulp’d with bloom.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Lift the latch! ah gently! ah tenderly⁠—sweet!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We are dead if that latchet gives one little clink!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Well done⁠—now those lips, and a flowery seat⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The old man may sleep, and the planets may wink;",
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   {
    "text": "The shut rose shall dream of our loves and awake",
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   {
    "text": "Full-blown, and such warmth for the morning take,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The stock-dove shall hatch her soft brace and shall coo,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While I kiss to the melody, aching all through.",
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