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 "title": "To Fausta",
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 "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)",
  "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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   {
    "text": "Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like the wave.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love lends life a little grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A few sad smiles: and then,",
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   {
    "text": "Both are laid in one cold place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the grave.",
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   {
    "text": "Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like spring flowers.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our vaunted life is one long funeral.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Men dig graves, with bitter tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For their dead hopes; and all,",
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   {
    "text": "Maz’d with doubts, and sick with fears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Count the hours.",
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   {
    "text": "We count the hours: these dreams of ours,",
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   {
    "text": "False and hollow,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall we go hence and find they are not dead?",
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   {
    "text": "Joys we dimly apprehend,",
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   {
    "text": "Faces that smil’d and fled,",
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   {
    "text": "Hopes born here, and born to end,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall we follow?",
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