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 "title": "The Last Sonnet",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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  "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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And watching, with eternal lids apart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The moving waters at their priestlike task",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of snow upon the mountains and the moors:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No⁠—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And so live ever⁠—or else swoon to death.",
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