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 "id": "maria-lowell/song",
 "title": "Song",
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 "poet": "Maria Lowell",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Poems of Maria Lowell",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1907,
  "venue": "The Poems of Maria Lowell (1907)",
  "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Oh bird, thou dartest to the sun",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When morning beams first spring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And I, like thee, would swiftly run,",
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   {
    "text": "As sweetly would I sing:",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Thy burning heart doth draw thee up",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto the source of fire;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou drinkest from its glowing cup,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And quenchest thy desire.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Oh dew, thou droppest soft below,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And pearlest all the ground,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet when the noontide comes, I know",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou never canst be found;",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "I would like thine had been my birth,",
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   {
    "text": "Then I, without a sigh,",
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   {
    "text": "Might sleep my night through on the earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To waken in the sky.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Oh clouds, ye little tender sheep,",
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   {
    "text": "Pastured in fields of blue,",
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   {
    "text": "While moon and stars your fold can keep,",
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   {
    "text": "And gently shepherd you⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Let me, too, follow in the train",
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   {
    "text": "That flocks across the night,",
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   {
    "text": "Or lingers on the open plain",
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   {
    "text": "With new-shorn fleeces white.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh singing winds, that wander far,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet always seem at home,",
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   {
    "text": "And freely play ’twixt star and star,",
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   {
    "text": "Along the bending dome,",
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   {
    "text": "I often listen to your song,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet never hear you say",
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   {
    "text": "One word of all the happy worlds",
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   {
    "text": "That shine so far away.",
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   {
    "text": "For they are free, ye all are free,",
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   {
    "text": "And bud, and dew, and light,",
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   {
    "text": "Can dart upon the azure sea,",
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    "text": "And leave me to my night;",
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    "text": "Oh would like theirs had been my birth,",
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    "text": "Then I, without a sigh,",
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   {
    "text": "Might sleep this night through on the earth",
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   {
    "text": "To waken in the sky.",
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