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 "title": "Dedication",
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 "poet": "Philip James Bailey",
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 "book": "Festus",
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  "venue": "Festus (1845)",
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    "text": "My father! unto thee to whom I owe",
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   {
    "text": "All that I am, all that I have and can;",
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   {
    "text": "Who madest me in thyself the sum of man",
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   {
    "text": "In all his generous aims and powers to know,",
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   {
    "text": "These first-fruits bring I; nor do thou forego",
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   {
    "text": "Marking when I the boyish feat began,",
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   {
    "text": "Which numbers now near three years from its plan,",
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   {
    "text": "Not twenty summers had imbrowned my brow.",
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   {
    "text": "Life is at blood-heat every page doth prove.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bear with it. Nature means Necessity.",
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   {
    "text": "If here be aught which thou canst love, it springs",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the hope that I may earn that love",
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   {
    "text": "More unto me than immortality;",
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    "text": "Or to have strang my harp with golden strings.",
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