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 "title": "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens",
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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": "In this lone open glade I lie,",
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   {
    "text": "Screen’d by deep boughs on either hand;",
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   {
    "text": "And at its head, to stay the eye,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those black-crown’d, red-boled pine-trees stand.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Birds here make song, each bird has his,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Across the girdling city’s hum.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How green under the boughs it is!",
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   {
    "text": "How thick the tremulous sheep-cries come!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Sometimes a child will cross the glade",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To take his nurse his broken toy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sometimes a thrush flit overhead",
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   {
    "text": "Deep in her unknown day’s employ.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Here at my feet what wonders pass,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What endless, active life is here!",
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   {
    "text": "What blowing daisies, fragrant grass!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An air-stirr’d forest, fresh and clear.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Scarce fresher is the mountain sod",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where the tired angler lies, stretch’d out,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, eased of basket and of rod,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Counts his day’s spoil, the spotted trout.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "In the huge world which roars hard by",
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   {
    "text": "Be others happy, if they can!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But in my helpless cradle I",
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   {
    "text": "Was breathed on by the rural Pan.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "I, on men’s impious uproar hurl’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Think often, as I hear them rave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That peace has left the upper world",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now keeps only in the grave.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Yet here is peace for ever new!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When I, who watch them, am away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still all things in this glade go through",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The changes of their quiet day.",
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   {
    "text": "Then to their happy rest they pass;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The flowers close, the birds are fed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The night comes down upon the grass,",
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   {
    "text": "The child sleeps warmly in his bed.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Calm soul of all things! make it mine",
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   {
    "text": "To feel, amid the city’s jar,",
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   {
    "text": "That there abides a peace of thine,",
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   {
    "text": "Man did not make, and cannot mar!",
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   {
    "text": "The will to neither strive nor cry,",
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   {
    "text": "The power to feel with others give!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Calm, calm me more! nor let me die",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before I have begun to live.",
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   }
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