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 "title": "A Reverie",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
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   {
    "text": "Yon may speak of a grave in a distant land,",
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   {
    "text": "Or of one ’neath ocean’s foam,",
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   {
    "text": "Where the dolphins play o’er the sunny spray,",
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    "text": "Far from the dear old home;",
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    "text": "Where the coral peaks form a glorious tomb,",
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   {
    "text": "And the mighty waters lave,",
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   {
    "text": "But there is naught in the wide world sought",
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   {
    "text": "Like the heart’s deep anguished grave.",
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    "text": "You may tell of a grave ’neath the burning sands",
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   {
    "text": "Of the tropics fevered zone;",
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    "text": "Where silence reigns o’er the desert plains",
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    "text": "So desolate, so forlorn.",
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    "text": "Where the lion’s roar is the liveliest sound",
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    "text": "That o’er that waste is heard⁠—",
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    "text": "And the forest bird hymns a plaintive lay,",
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    "text": "A requiem for the dead.",
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    "text": "Again you may tell of a grave unsought",
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    "text": "Far from the home of youth;",
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    "text": "Where the willow weeps as the exile sleeps",
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    "text": "Akin to Mother Earth.",
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   {
    "text": "But O! methinks, there’s not a woe",
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    "text": "That can the bosom cleave,",
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    "text": "Or as deeply wound, as the lowly mound",
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    "text": "O’er the heart’s deep, anguished grave.",
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