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 "title": "Longing",
 "ordinal": "V",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems",
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 "container": "Faded Leaves",
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  "year": 1852,
  "venue": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Come to me in my dreams, and then",
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    "text": "By day I shall be well again.",
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    "text": "For then the night will more than pay",
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    "text": "The hopeless longing of the day.",
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    "text": "Come, as thou cam’st a thousand times,",
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    "text": "A messenger from radiant climes,",
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    "text": "And smile on thy new world, and be",
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    "text": "As kind to others as to me.",
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    "text": "Or, as thou never cam’st in sooth,",
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    "text": "Come now, and let me dream it truth.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And part my hair, and kiss my brow,",
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   {
    "text": "And say⁠—My love! why sufferest thou?",
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    "text": "Come to me in my dreams, and then",
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    "text": "By day I shall be well again.",
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    "text": "For then the night will more than pay",
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    "text": "The hopeless longing of the day.",
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