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 "title": "Rachel",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "New Poems",
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  "venue": "New Poems (1867)",
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   {
    "text": "In Paris all look’d hot and like to fade.",
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   {
    "text": "Brown in the garden of the Tuileries,",
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   {
    "text": "Brown with September, droop’d the chestnut-trees.",
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    "text": "’Twas dawn; a brougham roll’d through the streets and made",
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    "text": "Halt at the white and silent colonnade",
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    "text": "Of the French Theatre. Worn with disease,",
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    "text": "Rachel, with eyes no gazing can appease,",
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    "text": "Sate in the brougham and those blank walls survey’d.",
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    "text": "She follows the gay world, whose swarms have fled",
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    "text": "To Switzerland, to Baden, to the Rhine;",
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    "text": "Why stops she by this empty play-house drear?",
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    "text": "Ah, where the spirit its highest life hath led,",
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    "text": "All spots, match’d with that spot, are less divine;",
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    "text": "And Rachel’s Switzerland, her Rhine, is here!",
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    "text": "Unto a lonely villa in a dell",
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    "text": "Above the fragrant warm Provençal shore",
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    "text": "The dying Rachel in a chair they bore",
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    "text": "Up the steep pine-plumed paths of the Estrelle,",
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    "text": "And laid her in a stately room, where fell",
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    "text": "The shadow of a marble Muse of yore⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The rose-crown’d queen of legendary lore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Polymnia⁠—full on her death-bed. ’Twas well!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "The fret and misery of our northern towns,",
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   {
    "text": "In this her life’s last day, our poor, our pain,",
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   {
    "text": "Our jangle of false wits, our climate’s frowns,",
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    "text": "Do for this radiant Greek-soul’d artist cease;",
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    "text": "Sole object of her dying eyes remain",
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   {
    "text": "The beauty and the glorious art of Greece.",
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    "text": "Sprung from the blood of Israel’s scatter’d race,",
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    "text": "At a mean inn in German Aarau born,",
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    "text": "To forms from antique Greece and Rome uptorn,",
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    "text": "Trick’d out with a Parisian speech and face,",
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    "text": "Imparting life renew’d, old classic grace;",
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    "text": "Then, soothing with thy Christian strain forlorn,",
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   {
    "text": "A-Kempis! her departing soul outworn,",
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   {
    "text": "While by her bedside Hebrew rites have place⁠—",
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    "text": "Ah, not the radiant spirit of Greece alone",
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   {
    "text": "She had⁠—one power, which made her breast its home!",
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   {
    "text": "In her, like us, there clash’d, contending powers,",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Germany, France, Christ, Moses, Athens, Rome.",
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   {
    "text": "The strife, the mixture in her soul, are ours;",
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   {
    "text": "Her genius and her glory are her own.",
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