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 "id": "mary-weston-fordham/october",
 "title": "October",
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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": "Bright and beautiful art thou,",
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   {
    "text": "Autumn flowers crown thy brow,",
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   {
    "text": "Golden-rod and Aster blue,",
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    "text": "Russet leaf with crimson hue.",
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   {
    "text": "Half stripped branches waving by,",
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   {
    "text": "Softly as a lullaby,",
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   {
    "text": "Tell of summer’s days gone by,",
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    "text": "Tell that winter’s very nigh.",
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   {
    "text": "In the forest cool and chill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sadly moans the Whippoorwill,",
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   {
    "text": "Not as in the summer days,",
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   {
    "text": "When he gloried in his lays,",
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   {
    "text": "Lower-toned, but sweet and clear,",
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    "text": "Like thy crisp and fragrant air,",
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   {
    "text": "Warbling forth with voice sublime,",
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   {
    "text": "This is nature’s harvest time.",
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    "text": "Crickets chirp amid the leaves,",
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    "text": "Squirrels hop among the trees,",
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    "text": "Brown nuts falling thick and fast,",
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    "text": "On the dewy, dying grass,",
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    "text": "Glowing sun with softer rays,",
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   {
    "text": "Harbinger of wintry days,",
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   {
    "text": "Tell the year is going by,",
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    "text": "Sighing forth its lullaby.",
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