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 "title": "Euphrosyne",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1852,
  "venue": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852)",
  "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": "I must not say that thou wert true,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet let me say that thou wert fair.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And they that lovely face who view,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They will not ask if truth be there.",
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   {
    "text": "Truth⁠—what is truth? Two bleeding hearts",
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   {
    "text": "Wounded by men, by Fortune tried,",
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   {
    "text": "Outwearied with their lonely parts,",
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   {
    "text": "Vow to beat henceforth side by side.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The world to them was stern and drear;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their lot was but to weep and moan.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, let them keep their faith sincere,",
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   {
    "text": "For neither could subsist alone!",
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   {
    "text": "But souls whom some benignant breath",
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   {
    "text": "Hath charm’d at birth from gloom and care,",
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   {
    "text": "These ask no love⁠—these plight no faith,",
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   {
    "text": "For they are happy as they are.",
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   {
    "text": "The world to them may homage make,",
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   {
    "text": "And garlands for their forehead weave.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what the world can give, they take:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But they bring more than they receive.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "They shine upon the world: Their ears",
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   {
    "text": "To one demand alone are coy.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They will not give us love and tears⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They bring us light, and warmth, and joy.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "It was not love that heav’d thy breast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fair child! it was the bliss within.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adieu! and say that one, at least,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was just to what he did not win.",
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