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 "title": "L’Envoi",
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 "poet": "Philip James Bailey",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Festus",
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  "year": 1845,
  "venue": "Festus (1845)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Read this, world! He who writes is dead to thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But still lives in these leaves. He spake inspired:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Night and day, thought came unhelped, undesired,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like blood to his heart. The course of study he",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Went through was of the soul-rack. The degree",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He took was high: it was wise wretchedness.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He suffered perfectly, and gained no less",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A prize than, in his own torn heart, to see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A few bright seeds: he sowed them⁠—hoped them truth.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The autumn of that seed is in these pages.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God was with him, and bade old Time, to the youth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unclench his heart, and teach the book of ages.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Peace to thee, world!⁠—farewell! May God the Power,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And God the Love⁠—and God the Grace, be ours!",
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