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 "poet": "Phillis Wheatley",
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 "book": "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral",
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  "year": 1773,
  "venue": "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)",
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   {
    "text": "The poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse",
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   {
    "text": "To show th’ obedience of the Infant muse.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She knows the Quail of most inviting taste",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fed Israel’s army in the dreary waste;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what’s on Britain’s royal standard borne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But the tall, graceful, rampant Unicorn?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Emerald with a vivid verdure glows",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among the gems which regal crowns compose;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Boston’s a town, polite and debonair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To which the beaux and beauteous nymphs repair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each Helen strikes the mind with sweet surprise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While living lightning flashes from her eyes.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See young Euphorbus of the Dardan line",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By Manelaus’ hand to death resign:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The well known peer of popular applause",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is C⁠⸺⁠m zealous to support our laws.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Quebec now vanquish’d must obey,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She too much annual tribute pay",
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   {
    "text": "To Britain of immortal fame.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And add new glory to her name.",
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