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 "title": "Lines to Mrs. Isabel Peace",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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 "sequence": 57,
 "container": "In Memoriam",
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
  "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": "’Tis said but a name is friendship,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soulless, and shallow, and vain;",
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   {
    "text": "That the human heart ne’er beats in response,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or echoes sweet sympathy’s strain.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But to-day in “memory’s mirror”",
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   {
    "text": "Came a dear and honored one.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom in days gone by had lived and had loved.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ere her heavenly goal was won.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Her countenance beamed as of yore,",
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   {
    "text": "With radiant smiles of love,",
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   {
    "text": "And I felt that the friendship she lavished me here,",
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   {
    "text": "Had ripened in heaven above.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "I felt that her voice so winsome,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Attuned to holier rhymes,",
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    "text": "Would in soft cadence tell of friendship’s truth,",
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    "text": "Like harp of a thousand strings.",
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    "text": "Rise up and call her blest!",
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   {
    "text": "Ye children of her love,",
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   {
    "text": "For a friendlier hand or a kindlier heart",
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   {
    "text": "Ne’er entered the mansions above.",
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