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  "venue": "The Shaksperean Show-Book, ed. J. S. Wood (Manchester, G. Falkner & Sons, 1884), p. 23",
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    "text": "O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!",
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    "text": "O moon with the brows of gold!",
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   {
    "text": "Rise up, rise up, from the odorous south!",
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    "text": "And light for my love her way,",
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    "text": "Lest her little feet should stray",
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    "text": "On the windy hill and the wold!",
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    "text": "O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!",
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    "text": "O moon with the brows of gold!",
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    "text": "O ship that shakes on the desolate sea!",
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    "text": "O ship with the wet, white sail!",
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    "text": "Put in, put in, to the port to me!",
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    "text": "For my love and I would go",
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    "text": "To the land where the daffodils blow",
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    "text": "In the heart of a violet dale!",
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    "text": "O ship that shakes on the desolate sea!",
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    "text": "O ship with the wet, white sail!",
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    "text": "O rapturous bird with the low, sweet note!",
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    "text": "O bird that sits on the spray!",
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    "text": "Sing on, sing on, from your soft brown throat!",
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    "text": "And my love in her little bed",
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    "text": "Will listen, and lift her head",
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    "text": "From the pillow, and come my way!",
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    "text": "O rapturous bird with the low, sweet note!",
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   {
    "text": "O bird that sits on the spray!",
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    "text": "O blossom that hangs in the tremulous air!",
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    "text": "O blossom with lips of snow!",
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    "text": "Come down, come down, for my love to wear!",
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    "text": "You will die on her head in a crown,",
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    "text": "O blossom that hangs in the tremulous air!",
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    "text": "O blossom with lips of snow!",
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