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 "title": "Nestle-Down Cottage",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
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   {
    "text": "As I sit by the ruddy oak fire,",
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   {
    "text": "And feel the grateful glow,",
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   {
    "text": "Come mem’ries sweet of a rustic cot,",
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    "text": "That stood near the pebbly shore.",
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    "text": "With its porch so bright and sunny,",
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    "text": "Where the children loved to play,",
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    "text": "With the sounding shells, from the sandy beach,",
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    "text": "All through the summer’s day.",
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   {
    "text": "Where, where are the blessed little ones",
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   {
    "text": "Whose childish voices sweet,",
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   {
    "text": "Who made the sunny porch resound",
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    "text": "With the patter of little feet?",
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    "text": "One where the South Seas wildly break,",
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   {
    "text": "And dash on the gleaming sand,",
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    "text": "Has made Him a home ’mid strangers,",
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    "text": "Far, far from his native land.",
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    "text": "Another, the sweetest and dearest,",
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    "text": "Has long ’neath the daisies been laid,",
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   {
    "text": "O! dark as a pall was the hour",
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    "text": "When they whispered my darling was dead.",
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    "text": "The cottage still stands by the sea shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Our sunny, bright “Nestle-Down,”",
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   {
    "text": "But we ask so sadly where, O! where",
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    "text": "Are the little children gone?",
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