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 "title": "To a Loved One",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "I’ll think of thee, mine own, dear one",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As morn’s first blushing ray",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Diffuses light o’er the dim earth⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Turns darkness into day.",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll think of thee at eve, my love,",
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   {
    "text": "When moon and star appear⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When in the horizon of my hope",
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   {
    "text": "All, all is bright and clear.",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll think of thee when joy doth cast",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its gladness o’er my heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As peace, and love and happiness",
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   {
    "text": "Seem new life to impart.",
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    "text": "I’ll think of thee when dark shades fall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Athwart my fevered brow;",
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   {
    "text": "When low in death I hear thee lisp⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "“I’m waiting for thee now.”",
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    "text": "I’ll think of thee, my darling one,",
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   {
    "text": "While I have life and breath;",
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   {
    "text": "And seal the assurance fervently,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I’ll think of thee in death.",
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