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 "title": "Ode to Peace",
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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": "Come Peace, on snowy pinions,",
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   {
    "text": "Come, nestle like a dove;",
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   {
    "text": "Encircle earth’s dominions",
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    "text": "With harmony and love.",
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   {
    "text": "Let anger, pride and malice,",
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   {
    "text": "And strife forgotten lie;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor from their venomed chalice,",
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   {
    "text": "Quaff more bitter draughts and die.",
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   {
    "text": "Come Peace, with arms extended,",
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   {
    "text": "Come, brood o’er this fair land;",
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   {
    "text": "Let battle scenes be ended,",
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   {
    "text": "And heart be joined with hand.",
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   {
    "text": "Let fields now crimsoned over,",
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   {
    "text": "With the life-blood of the brave,",
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   {
    "text": "Loom as monuments of warning,",
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    "text": "Shine, as beacon lights to save.",
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    "text": "Come Peace, a welcome waits thee,",
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   {
    "text": "From many a stricken life;",
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    "text": "And many a heart-crushed mourner,",
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    "text": "Now weary of the strife;",
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   {
    "text": "Methinks e’en now a footfall",
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   {
    "text": "Breaks like music on my ear,",
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    "text": "As the distant sound of gladness,",
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    "text": "When ’tis borne on summer’s air.",
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    "text": "May the echoes prove prophetic;",
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    "text": "May thy murmurs from afar",
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   {
    "text": "Shed a radiance as refulgent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beam as bright as Bethlehem’s Star.",
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   {
    "text": "And the hearts that have been riven,",
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   {
    "text": "And the bosoms that have bled,",
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   {
    "text": "Soon will change their griefs to gladness,",
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   {
    "text": "Yield to God and earth their dead.",
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