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 "title": "For Who?",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
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   {
    "text": "When the heavens with stars are gleaming",
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    "text": "Like a diadem of light,",
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   {
    "text": "And the moon’s pale rays are streaming,",
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    "text": "Decking earth with radiance bright;",
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    "text": "When the autumn’s winds are sighing,",
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   {
    "text": "O’er the hill and o’er the lea,",
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   {
    "text": "When the summer time is dying,",
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    "text": "Wanderer, wilt thou think of me?",
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   {
    "text": "When thy life is crowned with gladness,",
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   {
    "text": "And thy home with love is blest,",
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    "text": "Not one brow o’ercast with sadness,",
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    "text": "Not one bosom of unrest⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "When at eventide reclining,",
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    "text": "At thy hearthstone gay and free,",
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    "text": "Think of one whose life is pining,",
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    "text": "Breathe thou, love, a prayer for me.",
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    "text": "Should dark sorrows make thee languish,",
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    "text": "Cause thy cheek to lose its hue,",
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    "text": "In the hour of deepest anguish,",
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   {
    "text": "Darling, then I’ll grieve with you.",
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   {
    "text": "Though the night be dark and dreary,",
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   {
    "text": "And it seemeth long to thee,",
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   {
    "text": "I would whisper, “be not weary;”",
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    "text": "I would pray love, then, for thee.",
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   {
    "text": "Well I know that in the future,",
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    "text": "I may cherish naught of earth;",
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   {
    "text": "Well I know that love needs nurture,",
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   {
    "text": "And it is of heavenly birth.",
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   {
    "text": "But though ocean waves may sever",
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    "text": "I from thee, and thee from me,",
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   {
    "text": "Still this constant heart will never,",
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    "text": "Never cease to think of thee.",
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