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  "year": 1817,
  "venue": "The Examiner (23 February 1817)",
  "note": "The sonnet beginning “After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains”. Reprinted in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848), where Milnes dated it January 1817. The claim is the headnote to this poem in The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Cambridge Edition (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1899). No copy of that number of The Examiner has been read here.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains",
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    "text": "For a long dreary season, comes a day",
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   {
    "text": "Born of the gentle South, and clears away",
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   {
    "text": "From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.",
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   {
    "text": "The anxious month, relieved its pains,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May;",
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   {
    "text": "The eyelids with the passing coolness play,",
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   {
    "text": "Like rose leaves with the drip of summer rains.",
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   {
    "text": "And calmest thoughts come round us; as, of leaves",
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   {
    "text": "Budding,⁠—fruit ripening in stillness,⁠—Autumn suns",
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   {
    "text": "Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet Sappho’s cheek,⁠—a sleeping infant’s breath,⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs,⁠—",
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    "text": "A woodland rivulet,⁠—a Poet’s death.",
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