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 "subtitle": "From a Picture Painted by Miss V. T.",
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  "venue": "Kottabos 3, no. 2 (Michaelmas Term 1877), p. 56",
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    "text": "A fair slim boy not made for this world’s pain,",
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   {
    "text": "With hair of gold thick clustering round his ears,",
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    "text": "And longing eyes half veiled by foolish tears",
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    "text": "Like bluest water seen through mists of rain;",
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    "text": "Pale cheeks whereon no kiss hath left its stain,",
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    "text": "Red under-lip drawn in for fear of love,",
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    "text": "And white throat whiter than the breast of dove⁠—",
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    "text": "Alas! Alas! If all should be in vain.",
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    "text": "Corn-fields behind, and reapers all a-row",
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    "text": "In weariest labour toiling wearily,",
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    "text": "To no sweet sound of laughter or of lute.",
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    "text": "And careless of the crimson sunset-glow,",
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    "text": "The boy still dreams; nor knows that night is night,",
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    "text": "And in the night-time no man gathers fruit.",
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