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 "id": "matthew-arnold/on-the-rhine",
 "title": "On the Rhine",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems",
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 "container": "Faded Leaves",
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 "first_published": {
  "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": "Vain is the effort to forget.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some day I shall be cold, I know,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As is the eternal moonlit snow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the high Alps, to which I go:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But ah, not yet! not yet!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Vain is the agony of grief.",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis true, indeed, an iron knot",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ties straitly up from mine thy lot,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And were it snapt⁠—thou lov’st me not!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But is despair relief?",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Awhile let me with thought have done;",
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   {
    "text": "And as this brimm’d unwrinkled Rhine,",
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   {
    "text": "And that far purple mountain line,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lie sweetly in the look divine",
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   {
    "text": "Of the slow-sinking sun;",
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   {
    "text": "So let me lie, and calm as they",
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   {
    "text": "Let beam upon my inward view",
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   {
    "text": "Those eyes of deep, soft, lucent hue⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Eyes too expressive to be blue,",
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   {
    "text": "Too lovely to be grey.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Ah, Quiet, all things feel thy balm!",
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   {
    "text": "Those blue hills too, this river’s flow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were restless once, but long ago.",
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   {
    "text": "Tam’d is their turbulent youthful glow:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their joy is in their calm.",
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