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 "id": "maria-lowell/the-maidens-harvest",
 "title": "The Maiden’s Harvest",
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 "poet": "Maria Lowell",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Poems of Maria Lowell",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "There goeth, with the early light,",
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    "text": "Across a barren plain,",
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    "text": "One who, with face as morning bright,",
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    "text": "Singeth, “I come again!",
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    "text": "“And every grain I scatter free,",
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    "text": "An hundred-fold shall yield,",
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    "text": "Till waveth like a golden sea",
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    "text": "This dark and barren field.”",
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    "text": "She casteth seed upon the ground",
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    "text": "From out her pure white hand,",
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    "text": "And little winds steal up around",
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    "text": "To bear it through the land.",
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    "text": "She strikes her harp, she sings her song;",
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    "text": "She sings so loud and clear,",
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    "text": "“Arise! arise! ye sleeping throng,",
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    "text": "And bud and blossom here!”",
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    "text": "When o’er the hills she passed away,",
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    "text": "The Spring remembered her,",
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    "text": "And came, with sun and air of May,",
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    "text": "The barren earth to stir.",
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    "text": "And dropping dew the spot did love,",
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    "text": "And lingered there till noon;",
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    "text": "And winds and rains moved on above",
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    "text": "In softly-changing tune.",
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    "text": "So, when the Autumn cometh round,",
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    "text": "The golden heads bend low⁠—",
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    "text": "And near and nearer to the ground",
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    "text": "Their royal beard doth flow.",
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    "text": "The poor rejoice; in throngs they come",
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   {
    "text": "To reap the dropping grain;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Their voices rise in busy hum:",
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   {
    "text": "“Who, who hath sowed the plain?",
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    "text": "“And who hath wrought such bounteous cheer",
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    "text": "Where all before was dead?”",
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   {
    "text": "They bless the unseen Giver dear",
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    "text": "Who gave this daily bread.",
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    "text": "With harp in hand, a maiden bright",
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    "text": "Passed slowly by the throng,",
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    "text": "With face as fair as sunset light",
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    "text": "The maiden sang her song.",
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    "text": "“In morning-time I sowed this plain,",
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    "text": "Blest may the evening be,",
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    "text": "Which gives back every little grain",
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   {
    "text": "An hundred-fold to me!”",
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