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 "title": "Sonnet to the Hungarian Nation",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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  "year": 1849,
  "venue": "The Examiner, 21 July 1849",
  "note": "Headnote in Milford's Oxford edition, The Poems of Matthew Arnold 1840-1867: “First published in The Examiner, July 21, 1849; not reprinted by the author.”",
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   {
    "text": "Not in sunk Spain’s prolong’d death agony;",
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   {
    "text": "Not in rich England, bent but to make pour",
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   {
    "text": "The flood of the world’s commerce on her shore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not in that madhouse, France, from whence the cry",
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   {
    "text": "Afflicts grave Heaven with its long senseless roar;",
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   {
    "text": "Not in American vulgarity,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor wordy German imbecility⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Lies any hope of heroism more.",
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   {
    "text": "Hungarians! Save the world! Renew the stories",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of men who against hope repell’d the chain,",
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   {
    "text": "And make the world’s dead spirit leap again!",
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   {
    "text": "On land renew that Greek exploit, whose glories",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hallow the Salaminian promontories,",
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   {
    "text": "And the Armada flung to the fierce main.",
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