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 "title": "An Hymn to the Morning",
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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": "Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Assist my labours, and my strains refine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For bright Aurora now demands my song.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On ev’ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Harmonious lays the feather’d race resume,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.",
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   {
    "text": "Ye shady groves, your verdant gloom display",
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   {
    "text": "To shield your poet from the burning day:",
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   {
    "text": "Calliope awake the sacred lyre,",
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   {
    "text": "While thy fair sisters fan the pleasing fire:",
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   {
    "text": "The bow’rs, the gales, the variegated skies",
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   {
    "text": "In all their pleasures in my bosom rise.",
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   {
    "text": "See in the east th’ illustrious king of day!",
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   {
    "text": "His rising radiance drives the shades away⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But oh! I feel his fervid beams too strong,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And scarce begun, concludes th’ abortive song.",
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