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 "title": "Death of a Grandparent",
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 "subtitle": "Mrs. Jennette Bonneu",
 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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 "container": "In Memoriam",
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  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
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   {
    "text": "Rest thee aged pilgrim, now thy toils are o’er;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Peacefully thou’st landed over Jordan’s shore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Safe from all the sorrows, free from all the strife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou hast passed death’s portals, entered into life.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Doubtless thou wert weary, tempest tossed so long;",
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   {
    "text": "Doubtless thou wert longing to join the happy throng;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doubtless many loved ones on the other shore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whispered to thee softly “Stay on earth no more.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Whispered thee, come higher, where perennial bloom",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall with heightened luster its wonted sway resume.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Come where peaceful rivers quietly do flow⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hasten mother, hasten, from that world of woe.”",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Then to fields Elysian she joyfully did soar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the blest land of Canaan to dwell forever more;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All through the “Golden City” she happily doth roam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oft wondering why she stay’d so long away from home.",
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   {
    "text": "So ’neath the bending willows we’ve laid thee down to rest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Well knowing thou’rt reposing secure on Jesus’ breast;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Well knowing that one day will come, the welcome word Arise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come up, thou ransomed mortal, to thy Saviour in the skies.",
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