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 "title": "Mrs. Mary Furman Weston Byrd",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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    "text": "Though no blossoms cluster",
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   {
    "text": "Above thy aged brow,",
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   {
    "text": "Though winter winds are breathing",
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   {
    "text": "A requiem soft and low,",
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   {
    "text": "We look beyond earth’s shadows,",
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    "text": "Beyond death’s misty plain,",
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    "text": "And though we sadly miss thee,",
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    "text": "Will not wish thee back again.",
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   {
    "text": "Could we but see thee, dear one,",
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   {
    "text": "In the Palace of thy Lord,",
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   {
    "text": "With thy robe of snowy whiteness,",
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   {
    "text": "And with more than youth renewed.",
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    "text": "No more on bended willows",
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   {
    "text": "Would our broken harps remain,",
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   {
    "text": "Take us beauty for our ashes,",
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    "text": "Take us gladness for our pain.",
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