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 "id": "matthew-arnold/a-dream",
 "title": "A Dream",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1853,
  "venue": "Poems (1853)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Martin and I, down a green Alpine stream,",
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   {
    "text": "Under o’erhanging pines; the morning sun,",
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   {
    "text": "On the wet umbrage of their glossy tops,",
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   {
    "text": "On the red pinings of their forest floor,",
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   {
    "text": "Drew a warm scent abroad; behind the pines",
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   {
    "text": "The mountain skirts, with all their sylvan change",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of bright-leaf’d chestnuts, and moss’d walnut-trees,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the frail scarlet-berried ash, began.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Swiss chalets glitter’d on the dewy slopes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And from some swarded shelf high up, there came",
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   {
    "text": "Notes of wild pastoral music: over all",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rang’d, diamond-bright, the eternal wall of snow.",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the mossy rocks at the stream’s edge,",
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   {
    "text": "Back’d by the pines, a plank-built cottage stood,",
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   {
    "text": "Bright in the sun; the climbing gourd-plant’s leaves",
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    "text": "Muffled its walls, and on the stone-strewn roof",
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   {
    "text": "Lay the warm golden gourds; golden, within,",
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   {
    "text": "Under the eaves, peer’d rows of Indian corn.",
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   {
    "text": "We shot beneath the cottage with the stream.",
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   {
    "text": "On the brown rude-carv’d balcony two Forms",
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   {
    "text": "Came forth⁠—Olivia’s, Marguerite! and thine.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Clad were they both in white, flowers in their breast;",
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   {
    "text": "Straw hats bedeck’d their heads, with ribbons blue,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which wav’d, and on their shoulders fluttering play’d.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They saw us, they conferr’d; their bosoms heav’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And more than mortal impulse fill’d their eyes.",
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   {
    "text": "Their lips mov’d; their white arms, wav’d eagerly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Flash’d once, like falling streams:⁠—we rose, we gaz’d:",
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   {
    "text": "One moment, on the rapid’s top, our boat",
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   {
    "text": "Hung pois’d⁠—and then the darting River of Life",
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   {
    "text": "Loud thundering, bore us by: swift, swift it foam’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Black under cliffs it rac’d, round headlands shone.",
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   {
    "text": "Soon the plank’d cottage ’mid the sun-warm’d pines",
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   {
    "text": "Faded, the moss, the rocks; us burning Plains",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bristled with cities, us the Sea receiv’d.",
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