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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "Poetry",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1879,
  "venue": "The Nineteenth Century, vol. 5 (January 1879), p. 1",
  "note": "Francis O’Gorman, “Matthew Arnold and the SS Lusitania”, cites the printing as The Nineteenth Century, 5 (January 1879), 1, and notes that Arnold never reprinted the poem.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "I read in Dante how that horned light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which hid Ulysses, waved itself and said:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Following the sun, we set our vessel’s head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the great main; pass’d Seville on the right",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“And Ceuta on the left; then southward sped.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And last in air, far off, dim rose a Height.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We cheer’d; but from it rush’d a blast of might,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And struck⁠—and o’er us the sea-waters spread.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I dropp’d the book, and of my child I thought",
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   {
    "text": "In his long black ship speeding night and day",
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   {
    "text": "O’er those same seas; dark Teneriffe rose, fraught",
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   {
    "text": "With omen; “Oh! were that Mount pass’d,” I say.",
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    "text": "Then the door opens and this card is brought:",
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   {
    "text": "“Reach’d Cape Verde Islands, Lusitania.”",
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