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 "title": "East and West",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "New Poems",
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  "year": 1867,
  "venue": "New Poems (1867)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "In the bare midst of Anglesey they show",
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   {
    "text": "Two springs which close by one another play,",
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   {
    "text": "And, “Thirteen hundred years agone,” they say,",
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    "text": "“Two saints met often where those waters flow.",
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    "text": "“One came from Penmon westward, and a glow",
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    "text": "Whiten’d his face from the sun’s fronting ray.",
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    "text": "Eastward the other, from the dying day;",
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    "text": "And he with unsunn’d face did always go.”",
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   {
    "text": "Seiriol the Bright, Kybi the Dark, men said.",
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   {
    "text": "The Seër from the East was then in light,",
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    "text": "The Seër from the West was then in shade.",
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    "text": "Ah! now ’tis changed. In conquering sunshine bright",
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    "text": "The man of the bold West now comes array’d;",
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    "text": "He of the mystic East is touch’d with night.",
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