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 "id": "matthew-arnold/parting",
 "title": "Parting",
 "ordinal": "II",
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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": "Switzerland",
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  "year": 1852,
  "venue": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852)",
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    "text": "Ye storm-winds of Autumn",
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   {
    "text": "Who rush by, who shake",
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   {
    "text": "The window, and ruffle",
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    "text": "The gleam-lighted lake;",
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    "text": "Who cross to the hill-side",
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    "text": "Thin-sprinkled with farms,",
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    "text": "Where the high woods strip sadly",
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    "text": "Their yellowing arms;⁠—",
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    "text": "Ye are bound for the mountains⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, with you let me go",
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    "text": "Where your cold distant barrier,",
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    "text": "The vast range of snow,",
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    "text": "Through the loose clouds lifts dimly",
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    "text": "Its white peaks in air⁠—",
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    "text": "How deep is their stillness!",
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    "text": "Ah! would I were there!",
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   {
    "text": "But on the stairs what voice is this I hear,",
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    "text": "Buoyant as morning, and as morning clear?",
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    "text": "Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn",
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   {
    "text": "Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?",
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    "text": "Or was it from some sun-fleck’d mountain-brook",
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    "text": "That the sweet voice its upland clearness took?",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! it comes nearer⁠—",
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    "text": "Sweet notes, this way!",
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    "text": "Hark! fast by the window",
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    "text": "The rushing winds go,",
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    "text": "To the ice-cumber’d gorges,",
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    "text": "The vast seas of snow.",
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    "text": "There the torrents drive upward",
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    "text": "Their rock-strangled hum,",
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   {
    "text": "There the avalanche thunders",
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    "text": "The hoarse torrent dumb.",
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    "text": "—I come, O ye mountains!",
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   {
    "text": "Ye torrents, I come!",
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    "text": "But who is this, by the half-open’d door,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose figure casts a shadow on the floor?",
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   {
    "text": "The sweet blue eyes⁠—the soft, ash-colour’d hair⁠—",
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    "text": "The cheeks that still their gentle paleness wear⁠—",
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    "text": "The lovely lips, with their arch smile, that tells",
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    "text": "The unconquer’d joy in which her spirit dwells⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! they bend nearer⁠—",
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    "text": "Sweet lips, this way!",
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    "text": "Hark! the wind rushes past us⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! with that let me go",
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    "text": "To the clear waning hill-side",
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    "text": "Unspotted by snow,",
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    "text": "There to watch, o’er the sunk vale,",
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   {
    "text": "The frore mountain wall,",
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    "text": "Where the nich’d snow-bed sprays down",
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   {
    "text": "Its powdery fall.",
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   {
    "text": "There its dusky blue clusters",
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   {
    "text": "The aconite spreads;",
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   {
    "text": "There the pines slope, the cloud-strips",
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   {
    "text": "Hung soft in their heads.",
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    "text": "No life but, at moments,",
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    "text": "The mountain-bee’s hum.",
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   {
    "text": "—I come, O ye mountains!",
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   {
    "text": "Ye pine-woods, I come!",
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   {
    "text": "Forgive me! forgive me!",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, Marguerite, fain",
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   {
    "text": "Would these arms reach to clasp thee:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But see! ’tis in vain.",
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   {
    "text": "In the void air towards thee",
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   {
    "text": "My strain’d arms are cast.",
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   {
    "text": "But a sea rolls between us⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Our different past.",
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   {
    "text": "To the lips, ah! of others,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those lips have been prest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And others, ere I was,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were clasp’d to that breast;",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Far, far from each other",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our spirits have grown.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what heart knows another?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah! who knows his own?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Blow, ye winds! lift me with you!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I come to the wild.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fold closely, O Nature!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thine arms round thy child.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "To thee only God granted",
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   {
    "text": "A heart ever new:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To all always open;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To all always true.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, calm me! restore me!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And dry up my tears",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On thy high mountain platforms,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where Morn first appears,",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Where the white mists, for ever,",
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   {
    "text": "Are spread and upfurl’d;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the stir of the forces",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whence issued the world.",
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