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 "title": "Fragment of Chorus of a Dejaneira",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "New Poems",
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  "year": 1867,
  "venue": "New Poems (1867)",
  "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": "O frivolous mind of man,",
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   {
    "text": "Light ignorance, and hurrying, unsure thoughts,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though man bewails you not,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How I bewail you!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Little in your prosperity",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Do you seek counsel of the Gods.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Proud, ignorant, self-adored, you live alone.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In profound silence stern,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among their savage gorges and cold springs",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unvisited remain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The great oracular shrines.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thither in your adversity",
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   {
    "text": "Do you betake yourselves for light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But strangely misinterpret all you hear.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For you will not put on",
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   },
   {
    "text": "New hearts with the inquirer’s holy robe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And purged, considerate minds.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And him on whom, at the end",
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   {
    "text": "Of toil and dolour untold,",
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   {
    "text": "The Gods have said that repose",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At last shall descend undisturb’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Him you expect to behold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In an easy old age, in a happy home;",
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   {
    "text": "No end but this you praise.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But him, on whom, in the prime",
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   {
    "text": "Of life, with vigour undimm’d,",
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   {
    "text": "With unspent mind, and a soul",
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   {
    "text": "Unworn, undebased, undecay’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Mournfully grating, the gates",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the city of death have for ever closed⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Him, I count him, well-starr’d.",
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