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 "title": "The Good Shepherd with the Kid",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So rang Tertullian’s sentence, on the side",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave,",
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   {
    "text": "“Who sins, once wash’d by the baptismal wave!”",
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   {
    "text": "So spake the fierce Tertullian. But she sigh’d,",
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   {
    "text": "The infant Church; of love she felt the tide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Stream on her from her Lord’s yet recent grave.",
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   {
    "text": "And then she smiled, and in the Catacombs,",
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   {
    "text": "With eye suffused but heart inspired true,",
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    "text": "On those walls subterranean, where she hid",
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    "text": "Her head in ignominy, death, and tombs,",
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    "text": "She her Good Shepherd’s hasty image drew;",
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    "text": "And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid.",
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