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 "title": "To Marguerite⁠—Continued",
 "ordinal": "V",
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 "poet": "Matthew Arnold",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems",
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 "container": "Switzerland",
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  "year": 1852,
  "venue": "Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852)",
  "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": "2026-08-19"
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   {
    "text": "Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d,",
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   {
    "text": "With echoing straits between us thrown,",
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   {
    "text": "Dotting the shoreless watery wild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We mortal millions live alone.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The islands feel the enclasping flow,",
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   {
    "text": "And then their endless bounds they know.",
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    "text": "But when the moon their hollows lights",
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   {
    "text": "And they are swept by balms of spring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in their glens, on starry nights,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The nightingales divinely sing;",
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   {
    "text": "And lovely notes, from shore to shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Across the sounds and channels pour;",
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    "text": "Oh then a longing like despair",
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   {
    "text": "Is to their farthest caverns sent;",
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   {
    "text": "For surely once, they feel, we were",
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    "text": "Parts of a single continent.",
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   {
    "text": "Now round us spreads the watery plain⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Oh might our marges meet again!",
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   {
    "text": "Who order’d, that their longing’s fire",
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   {
    "text": "Should be, as soon as kindled, cool’d?",
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   {
    "text": "Who renders vain their deep desire?⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "God, a God their severance rul’d;",
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   {
    "text": "And bade betwixt their shores to be",
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   {
    "text": "The unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.",
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