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 "title": "Immortality",
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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": "Foil’d by our fellow-men, depress’d, outworn,",
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   {
    "text": "We leave the brutal world to take its way,",
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   {
    "text": "And, Patience! in another life, we say,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The world shall be thrust down, and we upborne!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The world’s poor, routed leavings; or will they,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who fail’d under the heat of this life’s day,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Support the fervours of the heavenly morn?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "No, no! the energy of life may be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Kept on after the grave, but not begun;",
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   {
    "text": "And he who flagg’d not in the earthly strife,",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "From strength to strength advancing⁠—only he,",
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   {
    "text": "His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,",
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    "text": "Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.",
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