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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
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    "text": "O come to me in my dreams love!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When the world is wrapped in sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "And the silver moon like virgin queen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her lonely vigils keep.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When all is hushed in calm repose⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The earth, and sky, and sea,",
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   {
    "text": "Then hasten love to this far-off land,",
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   {
    "text": "And dwell one hour with me.",
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    "text": "O come to me in my dreams love!",
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   {
    "text": "And cheer me on my way;",
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   {
    "text": "And bid me look to a higher land",
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   {
    "text": "For the dawn of a brighter day.",
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   {
    "text": "Then breathe to heaven an earnest prayer",
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    "text": "To bless, ere you depart,",
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   {
    "text": "With perfect love and childlike faith,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This sad, despondent heart.",
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    "text": "O, do not forget to come, love,",
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   {
    "text": "But on rosy pinions haste,",
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   {
    "text": "And deluge my willing ear, with",
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   {
    "text": "Mementoes of the past.",
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   {
    "text": "And tell me, too, of that distant land,",
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   {
    "text": "Its sunshine and its flowers;",
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   {
    "text": "And in return my strain shall be",
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   {
    "text": "Magnolia’s bright bowers.",
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    "text": "Ah, do not fail to come love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For I’ll woo my slumber to-night;",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll lay me down to sweet repose,",
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   {
    "text": "And wait for thee and light.",
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   {
    "text": "Then hie to my bower on wings of love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, linger not by the way,",
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   {
    "text": "But solace this heart and bid it hope,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the dawn of a brighter day.",
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