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 "title": "Stanzas",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "In Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq.",
 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems",
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 "sequence": 6,
 "container": null,
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1853,
  "venue": "Poems (1853)",
  "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "I saw him sensitive in frame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I knew his spirits low;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wish’d him health, success, and fame:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I do not wish it now.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "For these are all their own reward,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And leave no good behind;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They try us, oftenest make us hard,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Less modest, pure, and kind.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Alas! Yet to the suffering man,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In this his mortal state,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Friends could not give what Fortune can⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Health, ease, a heart elate.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But he is now by Fortune foil’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No more; and we retain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The memory of a man unspoil’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet, generous, and humane;",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "With all the fortunate have not⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With gentle voice and brow.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alive, we would have chang’d his lot:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We would not change it now.",
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   }
  ]
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