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 "title": "In Utrumque Paratus",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1849,
  "venue": "The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849)",
  "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": "If, in the silent mind of One all-pure,",
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   {
    "text": "At first imagin’d lay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sacred world; and by procession sure",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From those still deeps, in form and colour drest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seasons alternating, and night and day,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The long-mus’d thought to north south east and west",
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    "text": "Took then its all-seen way:",
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   {
    "text": "O waking on a world which thus-wise springs!",
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   {
    "text": "Whether it needs thee count",
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   {
    "text": "Betwixt thy waking and the birth of things",
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   {
    "text": "Ages or hours: O waking on Life’s stream!",
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    "text": "By lonely pureness to the all-pure Fount",
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   {
    "text": "(Only by this thou canst) the colour’d dream",
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   {
    "text": "Of Life remount.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And faint the city gleams;",
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   {
    "text": "Rare the lone pastoral huts: marvel not thou!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The solemn peaks but to the stars are known,",
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   {
    "text": "But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alone the sun arises, and alone",
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   {
    "text": "Spring the great streams.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But, if the wild unfather’d mass no birth",
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   {
    "text": "In divine seats hath known:",
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   {
    "text": "In the blank, echoing solitude, if Earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rocking her obscure body to and fro,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ceases not from all time to heave and groan,",
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   {
    "text": "Unfruitful oft, and, at her happiest throe,",
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   {
    "text": "Forms, what she forms, alone:",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "O seeming sole to awake, thy sun-bath’d head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Piercing the solemn cloud",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Round thy still dreaming brother-world outspread!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O man, whom Earth, thy long-vext mother, bare",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not without joy; so radiant, so endow’d⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Such happy issue crown’d her painful care)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be not too proud!",
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   {
    "text": "O when most self-exalted most alone,",
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   {
    "text": "Chief dreamer, own thy dream!",
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   {
    "text": "Thy brother-world stirs at thy feet unknown;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who hath a monarch’s hath no brother’s part;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet doth thine inmost soul with yearning teem.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O what a spasm shakes the dreamer’s heart⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“I, too, but seem!”",
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