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 "id": "matthew-arnold/the-new-sirens",
 "title": "The New Sirens",
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 "subtitle": "A Palinode",
 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "book": "The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1849,
  "venue": "The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849)",
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    "text": "In the cedar shadow sleeping,",
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    "text": "Where cool grass and fragrant glooms",
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    "text": "Oft at noon had lur’d me, creeping",
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    "text": "From your darken’d palace rooms:",
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    "text": "I, who in your train at morning",
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    "text": "Stroll’d and sang with joyful mind,",
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    "text": "Heard, at evening, sounds of warning;",
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    "text": "Heard the hoarse boughs labour in the wind.",
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    "text": "Who are they, O pensive Graces,",
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   {
    "text": "—For I dream’d they wore your forms⁠—",
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    "text": "Who on shores and sea-wash’d places",
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    "text": "Scoop the shelves and fret the storms?",
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    "text": "Who, when ships are that way tending,",
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    "text": "Troop across the flushing sands,",
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    "text": "To all reefs and narrows wending,",
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    "text": "With blown tresses, and with beckoning hands?",
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    "text": "Yet I see, the howling levels",
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    "text": "Of the deep are not your lair;",
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    "text": "And your tragic-vaunted revels",
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    "text": "Are less lonely than they were.",
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    "text": "In a Tyrian galley steering",
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   {
    "text": "From the golden springs of dawn,",
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   {
    "text": "Troops, like Eastern kings, appearing,",
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   {
    "text": "Stream all day through your enchanted lawn.",
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    "text": "And we too, from upland valleys,",
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    "text": "Where some Muse, with half-curv’d frown",
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    "text": "Leans her ear to your mad sallies",
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    "text": "Which the charm’d winds never drown;",
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    "text": "By faint music guided, ranging",
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   {
    "text": "The scar’d glens, we wander’d on,",
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   {
    "text": "Left our awful laurels hanging,",
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   {
    "text": "And came heap’d with myrtles to your throne.",
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    "text": "From the dragon-warder’d fountains",
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   {
    "text": "Where the springs of knowledge are:",
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   {
    "text": "From the watchers on the mountains,",
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   {
    "text": "And the bright and morning star:",
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    "text": "We are exiles, we are falling,",
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   {
    "text": "We have lost them at your call.",
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    "text": "O ye false ones, at your calling",
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    "text": "Seeking ceilèd chambers and a palace hall.",
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    "text": "Are the accents of your luring",
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    "text": "More melodious than of yore?",
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   {
    "text": "Are those frail forms more enduring",
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   {
    "text": "Than the charms Ulysses bore?",
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    "text": "That we sought you with rejoicings",
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    "text": "Till at evening we descry",
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    "text": "At a pause of Siren voicings",
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   {
    "text": "These vext branches and this howling sky?",
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    "text": "Oh! your pardon. The uncouthness",
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   {
    "text": "Of that primal age is gone:",
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    "text": "And the skin of dazzling smoothness",
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    "text": "Screens not now a heart of stone.",
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    "text": "Love has flush’d those cruel faces;",
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   {
    "text": "And your slacken’d arms forgo",
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   {
    "text": "The delight of fierce embraces:",
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   {
    "text": "And those whitening bone-mounds do not grow.",
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    "text": "“Come,” you say; “the large appearance",
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    "text": "Of man’s labour is but vain:",
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   {
    "text": "And we plead as firm adherence",
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    "text": "Due to pleasure as to pain.”",
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   {
    "text": "Pointing to some world-worn creatures,",
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   {
    "text": "“Come,” you murmur with a sigh:",
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   {
    "text": "“Ah! we own diviner features,",
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    "text": "Loftier bearing, and a prouder eye.",
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    "text": "“Come,” you say, “the hours are dreary:",
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   {
    "text": "Life is long, and will not fade:",
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   {
    "text": "Time is lame, and we grow weary",
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   {
    "text": "In the slumbrous cedarn shade.",
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   {
    "text": "Round our hearts, with long caresses,",
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   {
    "text": "With low sighs hath Silence stole;",
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   {
    "text": "And her load of steaming tresses",
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   {
    "text": "Weighs, like Ossa, on the aery soul.",
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   {
    "text": "“Come,” you say, “the Soul is fainting",
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   {
    "text": "Till she search, and learn her own:",
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   {
    "text": "And the wisdom of man’s painting",
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   {
    "text": "Leaves her riddle half unknown.",
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   {
    "text": "Come,” you say, “the brain is seeking,",
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   {
    "text": "When the princely heart is dead:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet this glean’d, when Gods were speaking,",
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   {
    "text": "Rarer secrets than the toiling head.",
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   {
    "text": "“Come,” you say, “opinion trembles,",
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   {
    "text": "Judgement shifts, convictions go;",
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   {
    "text": "Life dries up, the heart dissembles:",
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   {
    "text": "Only, what we feel, we know.",
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   {
    "text": "Hath your wisdom known emotions?",
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   {
    "text": "Will it weep our burning tears?",
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   {
    "text": "Hath it drunk of our love-potions",
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    "text": "Crowning moments with the weight of years?”",
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    "text": "I am dumb. Alas! too soon, all",
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   {
    "text": "Man’s grave reasons disappear:",
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   {
    "text": "Yet, I think, at God’s tribunal",
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    "text": "Some large answer you shall hear.",
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   {
    "text": "But for me, my thoughts are straying",
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   {
    "text": "Where at sunrise, through the vines,",
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   {
    "text": "On these lawns I saw you playing,",
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   {
    "text": "Hanging garlands on your odorous pines.",
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    "text": "When your showering locks enwound you,",
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   {
    "text": "And your heavenly eyes shone through:",
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   {
    "text": "When the pine-boughs yielded round you,",
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   {
    "text": "And your brows were starr’d with dew:",
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   {
    "text": "And immortal forms to meet you",
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   {
    "text": "Down the statued alleys came:",
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   {
    "text": "And through golden horns, to greet you,",
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   {
    "text": "Blew such music as a God may frame.",
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    "text": "Yes⁠—I muse:⁠—And, if the dawning",
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   {
    "text": "Into daylight never grew⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "If the glistering wings of morning",
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    "text": "On the dry noon shook their dew⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "If the fits of joy were longer⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Or the day were sooner done⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Or, perhaps, if Hope were stronger⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "No weak nursling of an earthly sun⁠ ⁠…",
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   {
    "text": "Pluck, pluck cypress, O pale maidens,",
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   {
    "text": "Dusk the hall with yew!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "For a bound was set to meetings",
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   {
    "text": "And the sombre day dragg’d on:",
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   {
    "text": "And the burst of joyful greetings,",
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   {
    "text": "And the joyful dawn, were gone:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the eye was fill’d with gazing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on raptures follow calms:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And those warm locks men were praising",
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   {
    "text": "Droop’d, unbraided, on your listless arms.",
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    "text": "Storms unsmooth’d your folded valleys,",
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   {
    "text": "And made all your cedars frown;",
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   {
    "text": "Leaves were whirling in the alleys",
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   {
    "text": "Which your lovers wander’d down.",
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   {
    "text": "—Sitting cheerless in your bowers,",
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   {
    "text": "The hands propping the sunk head,",
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   {
    "text": "Do they gall you, the long hours?",
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   {
    "text": "And the hungry thought, that must be fed?",
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   {
    "text": "Is the pleasure that is tasted",
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   {
    "text": "Patient of a long review?",
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   {
    "text": "Will the fire joy hath wasted,",
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   {
    "text": "Mus’d on, warm the heart anew?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "—Or, are those old thoughts returning,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Guests the dull sense never knew,",
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   {
    "text": "Stars, set deep, yet inly burning,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Germs, your untrimm’d Passion overgrew?",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Once, like me, you took your station",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Watchers for a purer fire:",
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   {
    "text": "But you droop’d in expectation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And you wearied in desire.",
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   {
    "text": "When the first rose flush was steeping",
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   {
    "text": "All the frore peak’s awful crown,",
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   {
    "text": "Shepherds say, they found you sleeping",
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   {
    "text": "In some windless valley, further down.",
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   {
    "text": "Then you wept, and slowly raising",
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   {
    "text": "Your doz’d eyelids, sought again,",
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   {
    "text": "Half in doubt, they say, and gazing",
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   {
    "text": "Sadly back, the seats of men.",
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   {
    "text": "Snatch’d an earthly inspiration",
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   {
    "text": "From some transient human Sun,",
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   {
    "text": "And proclaim’d your vain ovation",
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   {
    "text": "For those mimic raptures you had won.",
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   {
    "text": "Pluck, pluck cypress, O pale maidens,",
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   {
    "text": "Dusk the hall with yew!",
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    "text": "With a sad, majestic motion⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "With a stately, slow surprise⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "From their earthward-bound devotion",
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   {
    "text": "Lifting up your languid eyes:",
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   {
    "text": "Would you freeze my louder boldness,",
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   {
    "text": "Dumbly smiling as you go?",
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   {
    "text": "One faint frown of distant coldness",
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   {
    "text": "Flitting fast across each marble brow?",
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   {
    "text": "Do I brighten at your sorrow,",
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   {
    "text": "O sweet Pleaders? doth my lot",
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   {
    "text": "Find assurance in to-morrow",
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   {
    "text": "Of one joy, which you have not?",
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   {
    "text": "O speak once! and let my sadness!",
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   {
    "text": "And this sobbing Phrygian strain,",
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   {
    "text": "Sham’d and baffled by your gladness,",
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   {
    "text": "Blame the music of your feasts in vain.",
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    "text": "Scent, and song, and light, and flowers⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Gust on gust, the hoarse winds blow.",
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   {
    "text": "Come, bind up those ringlet showers!",
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   {
    "text": "Roses for that dreaming brow!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come, once more that ancient lightness,",
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   {
    "text": "Glancing feet, and eager eyes!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let your broad lamps flash the brightness",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which the sorrow-stricken day denies!",
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   {
    "text": "Through black depths of serried shadows,",
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   {
    "text": "Up cold aisles of buried glade;",
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   {
    "text": "In the midst of river meadows",
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   {
    "text": "Where the looming kine are laid;",
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   {
    "text": "From your dazzled windows streaming,",
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   {
    "text": "From your humming festal room,",
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   {
    "text": "Deep and far, a broken gleaming",
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   {
    "text": "Reels and shivers on the ruffled gloom.",
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   {
    "text": "Where I stand, the grass is glowing:",
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   {
    "text": "Doubtless you are passing fair:",
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   {
    "text": "But I hear the north wind blowing;",
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   {
    "text": "And I feel the cold night-air.",
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   {
    "text": "Can I look on your sweet faces,",
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   {
    "text": "And your proud heads backward thrown,",
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   {
    "text": "From this dusk of leaf-strewn places",
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   {
    "text": "With the dumb woods and the night alone?",
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   {
    "text": "But, indeed, this flux of guesses⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Mad delight, and frozen calms⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Mirth to-day and vine-bound tresses,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And to-morrow⁠—folded palms⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is this all? this balanc’d measure?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Could life run no easier way?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Happy at the noon of pleasure,",
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   {
    "text": "Passive, at the midnight of dismay?",
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   {
    "text": "But, indeed, this proud possession⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "This far-reaching magic chain,",
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   {
    "text": "Linking in a mad succession",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fits of joy and fits of pain:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have you seen it at the closing?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have you track’d its clouded ways?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can your eyes, while fools are dozing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drop, with mine, adown life’s latter days?",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "When a dreary light is wading",
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   {
    "text": "Through this waste of sunless greens⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "When the flashing lights are fading",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On the peerless cheek of queens⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "When the mean shall no more sorrow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the proudest no more smile⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While the dawning of the morrow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Widens slowly westward all that while?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Then, when change itself is over,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When the slow tide sets one way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall you find the radiant lover,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even by moments, of to-day?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The eye wanders, faith is failing:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, loose hands, and let it be!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Proudly, like a king bewailing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, let fall one tear, and set us free!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "All true speech and large avowal",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which the jealous soul concedes:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All man’s heart⁠—which brooks bestowal:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All frank faith⁠—which passion breeds:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These we had, and we gave truly:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Doubt not, what we had, we gave:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "False we were not, nor unruly:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Lodgers in the forest and the cave.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Long we wander’d with you, feeding",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our sad souls on your replies:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In a wistful silence reading",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "All the meaning of your eyes:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By moss-border’d statues sitting,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By well-heads, in summer days.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But we turn, our eyes are flitting.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "See, the white east, and the morning rays!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And you too, O weeping Graces,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Sylvan Gods of this fair shade!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is there doubt on divine faces?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Are the happy Gods dismay’d?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Can men worship the wan features,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The sunk eyes, the wailing tone,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of unspher’d, discrownèd creatures,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Souls as little godlike as their own?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Come, loose hands! The wingèd fleetness",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of immortal feet is gone.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And your scents have shed their sweetness,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And your flowers are overblown.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And your jewell’d gauds surrender",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Half their glories to the day:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Freely did they flash their splendour,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Freely gave it⁠—but it dies away.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In the pines the thrush is waking⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, yon orient hill in flames:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Scores of true love knots are breaking",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "At divorce which it proclaims.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "When the lamps are pal’d at morning,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Heart quits heart, and hand quits hand.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "—Cold in that unlovely dawning,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Loveless, rayless, joyless you shall stand.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Strew no more red roses, maidens,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Leave the lilies in their dew:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Pluck, pluck cypress, O pale maidens!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Dusk, O dusk the hall with yew!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "—Shall I seek, that I may scorn her,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her I lov’d at eventide?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Shall I ask, what faded mourner",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Stands, at daybreak, weeping by my side?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Pluck, pluck cypress, O pale maidens!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Dusk the hall with yew!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}