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 "id": "matthew-arnold/theklas-answer",
 "title": "Thekla’s Answer",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "From Schiller",
 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
 "poet_slug": "matthew-arnold",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems",
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 "sequence": 3,
 "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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  "sources": [
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   "https://archive.org/details/poemsofmatthewar00arnouoft",
   "https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksofm00arn",
   "https://archive.org/details/inmemoriamawrea00marsgoog"
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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": "Where I am, thou ask’st, and where I wended",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When my fleeting shadow pass’d from thee?⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Am I not concluded now, and ended?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have not life and love been granted me?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ask, where now those nightingales are singing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who, of late, on the soft nights of May,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Set thine ears with soul-fraught music ringing⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Only, while their love liv’d, lasted they.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Find I him, for whom I had to sever?⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doubt it not, we met, and we are one.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, where what is join’d, is join’d for ever,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, where tears are never more to run.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "There thou too shalt live with us together,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When thou too hast borne the love we bore:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, from sin deliver’d, dwells my Father,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Track’d by Murder’s bloody sword no more.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There he feels, it was no dream deceiving",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lur’d him starwards to uplift his eye:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God doth match his gifts to man’s believing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Believe, and thou shalt find the Holy nigh.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "All thou augurest here of lovely seeming",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There shall find fulfilment in its day:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dare, O Friend, be wandering, dare be dreaming;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lofty thought lies oft in childish play.",
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