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 "title": "To Rev. Thaddeus Saltus",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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 "sequence": 54,
 "container": "In Memoriam",
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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": "Sleep, Christian warrior, sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "Life’s fitful dream is o’er,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy pain-tossed bark is anchored",
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   {
    "text": "Safe on the golden shore.",
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   {
    "text": "’Neath the green sward we lay thee",
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   {
    "text": "Thus early to thy rest,",
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   {
    "text": "And press the sod thus lightly,",
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    "text": "Upon thy gentle breast.",
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   {
    "text": "Though but in manhood’s prime,",
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   {
    "text": "When the dread summons came,",
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   {
    "text": "To hush the voice so well attuned",
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   {
    "text": "To preaching “In His Name.”",
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   {
    "text": "Thou did’st not murmur, but with joy",
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   {
    "text": "Obeyed the Master’s word,",
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   {
    "text": "And rapture crowned did’st enter",
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    "text": "The palace of thy Lord.",
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    "text": "Then sweetly sleep, dear Rector,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy grave we’ll deck with flowers,",
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   {
    "text": "An earnest of that Better Land",
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    "text": "Of ever blooming bowers.",
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   {
    "text": "Around this spot a halo twines,",
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   {
    "text": "While angels vigils keep,",
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   {
    "text": "And we rejoice that thus “He gives",
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   {
    "text": "To His beloved sleep.”",
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