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 "title": "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle",
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 "poet": "Maria Lowell",
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 "book": "The Poems of Maria Lowell",
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    "text": "Here blooms the legend, fed by Time and Chance,",
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   {
    "text": "Fresh as the morning, though with centuries old,",
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    "text": "The whitest lily on the shield of France,",
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    "text": "With heart of virgin gold.",
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    "text": "Along the square she moved, sweet Joan of Arc,",
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    "text": "With face more pallid than a daylit star,",
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    "text": "Half-seen, half-doubted, while before her dark",
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    "text": "Stretched the array of war.",
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    "text": "Swift passed the battle-smoke of lying breath",
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    "text": "From off her path, as if a wind had blown,",
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   {
    "text": "Showing no faithless King, but righteous Death,",
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    "text": "On the low wooden throne.",
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    "text": "He would reward her: she who meekly wore",
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    "text": "Alike the gilded mail and peasant gown,",
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    "text": "As meekly now received one honor more,",
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    "text": "The formless, fiery crown.",
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    "text": "A white dove trembled up the heated air,",
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    "text": "And in the opening zenith found its goal;",
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    "text": "Soft as a downward feather, dropped a prayer",
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    "text": "For each repentant soul.",
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