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 "title": "Rome",
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 "poet": "Maria Lowell",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The sun had set, the city gates were passed,",
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    "text": "Up swelled the mighty dome;",
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    "text": "The dream of childhood had come true at last,",
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    "text": "We were in Rome!",
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    "text": "The fountains trembled in their light and shade,",
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    "text": "The pale new moon was dropping down the sky,",
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    "text": "Seemed to be marching by.",
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    "text": "And Rome lay all before us in its glory,",
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    "text": "Its glory and its beautiful decay,",
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    "text": "But, like the student in the oft-read story,",
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   {
    "text": "I could have turned away,",
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    "text": "To the still chamber with its half-closed shutter,",
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    "text": "Where the beloved father lay in pain,",
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    "text": "To sit beside him in contentment utter,",
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    "text": "Never to part again.",
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